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• Never aspired to be an actress • Claims to be a big comic geek and is a fan of X-Men • Studied history at Trinity College in Dublin • Says she would like to have an acting career like Kate Winslet's • Won her first role just three months after signing to an agent • Has a tattoo on her back that says 'purity' • Has worked for a fashion magazine, as a wardrobe assistant in the costume department of The Tudors, and as a makeup artist for MAC • Her other past jobs include working in a piercing studio and cocktail bar • Says she is a natural blonde; her hair is dyed every three weeks for Merlin • Keeps her natural Irish accent for her role on Merlin • Her favourite jewellery item is her great-grandmother's gold watch chain, which she wears all the time • Says one of her proudest acting moments is working with child actor Asa Butterfield (Boy in the Striped Pyjamas) on Merlin • Her favorite episode of Merlin season 1 is episode 8, "The Beginning the End" • She and actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers participated in the Save Tara event in September 2007 to try and save the Tara/Skryne Valley from the proposed construction of a motorway • Almost didn't get the part on Merlin because the lead actor, Colin Morgan, is also Irish • Has played a goth character twice: in the TV series Roaring Twenties and in Freakdog |