056: Marina Sirtis (Part One)
Join host Andrew Keates for The Show People Podcast, recorded live from The Two Brewers in Clapham.
This episode features an extraordinary conversation with actor and activist, Pearl Mackie.
Episode Highlights Include:
• A frank and honest conversation about being sexually abused as a child and how the trauma manifested into an eating disorder.
• Marina's childhood, her difficult relationship with her mother, the trouble she used to get up to I her teenager years.
• Marina's time at the Guildhall School of Speech and Drama and the difficulty she had with some of the teachers there.
• Her earliest jobs, including working with a very difficult goat...
• What it was like working with director Michael Winner.
• What brought her to the United States of America
• And of course, how she secured the role of Deanna Troi in Star Trek: The Next Generation and so many stories about bolding going where no woman has gone before.
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