I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.

I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts.

I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything.

Miss Goodblatt would call on me to read. She said I had a talent. So on a whim, I auditioned for the High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan.

I'm very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16, then I finished high school over here because I got into this performing arts high school.

For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.