Oscars 2019: Olivia Colman wins Best Actress

Oscars 2019 

Olivia Colman: 20 things you didn't think about the Oscar-winning on-screen character

In transit to Tinseltown brilliance, Norwich's best has conceived an imperial burglary, persevered in front of an audience catastrophe and been given odd vocation guidance

Olivia Colman's Oscars discourse: 'this is really very unpleasant!' – video

1 She played out the voiceover for the Andrex "be benevolent to your behind" adverts in 2013. "I asked on the off chance that I could get paid in little dogs," she uncovered. "They said no."

2 Her first profession plan was to go into educating. Before turning her sights to acting she prepared as an elementary teacher at Homerton school, Cambridge. "I wasn't appallingly dedicated, and I would have been a horrible instructor."

3 As an occupation chasing graduate she was told by a modernized vocations exhortation program she would make a perfect HGV lorry driver – "on the grounds that I have 100% spatial mindfulness. I'd probably back them into tight parking spaces."


4 During her college years she tried out effectively for the Cambridge Footlights troupe, where she met David Mitchell and Robert Webb – in whose sitcom Peep Show she proceeded to star as Sophie Chapman.

5 After graduating she filled in as a cleaner and secretary ("not an extremely decent one").

6 Her planning for the job of Carol Thatcher (Margaret's girl) in The Iron Lady included examination of her appearances on I'm a Celebrity… "to get her voice right".

7 In her 6th structure years, Colman went to a similar school, Gresham's, as Stephen Frears (and Benjamin Britten, WH Auden and Sir James Dyson).

8 She increased more than two stone to play the cake-swallowing Queen Anne for her Oscar-winning turn in The Favorite. ("It was freeing and splendid.")

9 She is a promoter and individual from the counter press interruption gather Hacked Off, set up in the wake of the 2010 telephone hacking disclosures.


10 In 2006 she played one portion of a naturist couple endeavoring to sort out a bare wedding in the mockumentary Confetti – which she has portrayed as the most exceedingly awful experience of her life. "I would have rested easy thinking about it had I known what amount was really going to be in plain view."

11 In a prominent creation of Hay Fever in 2012, close by Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Jeremy Northam, she got the snickers in the wake of overlooking her lines in front of an audience. "West End gatherings of people haven't paid to see that. I felt downright terrible."

12 Another dramatic setback was wetting herself when acting inverse David Mitchell. "We were doing The Miser and there were a great deal of speedy changes and David never entirely figured out how to get his tie in the ideal spot. It turned out to be excessively to manage."

13 Toilet paper obviously assumes a major job in her life: she inspired her significant other to take some from Buckingham Palace when they were there for a formal supper. "He got two squares of loo move, just to state, 'We got it from Buckingham Palace.'"

14 She sent an under-skirt wipe as a repository for Emma Stone's fingers when recording a simulated intercourse in The Favorite. "It was a major, wet wipe. So Emma went up my leg and she went, 'Ugh!'".

15 Her first name is Sarah [Caroline Olivia Colman].

16 She needed to contend with Wikipedia to get her recorded age changed after she spotted it wasn't right by eight years. "I stated, 'It's truly irritating me that you've made me eight years more seasoned than I really am.' They stated, 'We'd need to see a birth declaration to demonstrate it', and I went, 'Whose screwing birth authentication have you taken a gander at in any case to make me eight years older!?"'

17 The character she played in The Night Manager was not initially intended to be pregnant. However, she was pregnant while taping, so the essayists joined it into the content. They additionally fused loads of seats in the sets, so she didn't need to stand up throughout the day.

18 She once (potentially still does) have a comedian klaxon as her cell phone ringtone.

19 She met her better half Ed when they were both cast in an understudy theater generation (of Alan Ayckbourn's Table Manners). He surrendered acting at an opportune time, and is currently an essayist.

20 Her puppy is called Alfred, Lord Waggyson.

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