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Olivia Colman reveals she was 'sleeping on people's sofas' and struggled to afford her bus fare before shooting to A-list fame
The A-list star, 50, said she struggled with moving from Norwich to London in search of her big break, going to 100 auditions in her first year out of drama school and not securing a single role.
Olivia's first big role came in Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show as Sophie Chapman, the co-worker and on-off love interest of main character Mark Corrigan ( David Mitchell). Olivia starred in all nine series of Peep Show from 2003 to 2015, after meeting Mitchell and Robert Webb (Jeremy Usbourne) at Cambridge University's drama club, having made her professional acting debut aged 26 three years before. Over two decades on from her breakthrough, Olivia was joined by her Wicked Little Letters co-star Jessie Buckley, who also spoke of similar financial struggles in the early days of her career, having moved to London from Killarney, Ireland.
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