Karen Sheila Gillan was born in Inverness on 28 November 1987, the daughter of Marie and Raymond Gillan. Although she comes from a Catholic background, she says that she was not baptised and does not practise a religion. When she turned 16, she moved to Edinburgh and completed a HNC Acting and Performance course at Telford College. She moved to London at age 18 to study at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts. While there, she was scouted by a modelling agency. Prior to her acting career, she worked as a model, premiering at London Fashion Week in 2007.
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Karen Gillan
Karen Gillan | Early life
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Karen Gillan returned in the fifth series to play Amy Pond.
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what is the fires of pompeii?
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It is the second episode of the fourth series of the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who".
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what is its storyline?
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The Tenth Doctor and Donna arrive in Pompeii the day before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79.
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who is the aforesaid person?
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Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
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who is the aforesaid actress mentioned in the series?
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She is a Scottish actress, filmmaker and former model.
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where was she born?
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Karen Sheila Gillan was born in Inverness on 28 November 1987, the daughter of Marie and Raymond Gillan. Although she comes from a Catholic background, she says that she was not baptised and does not practise a religion. When she turned 16, she moved to Edinburgh and completed a HNC Acting and Performance course at Telford College. She moved to London at age 18 to study at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts. While there, she was scouted by a modelling agency. Prior to her acting career, she worked as a model, premiering at London Fashion Week in 2007.
Karen Gillan | Early life
Gillan has said she would not give up her acting career to return to modelling, stating that while she enjoyed modelling, acting had always been her main interest and goal. During a 2012 interview on "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson", Gillan stated that she had permanently relocated to the U.S. around the time she was shooting the film "Oculus" (2013).
Karen Gillan | Early life
Findlay was born in 1968 in Cullen, Moray, Scotland.
Karen Findlay | Early life
McEwan was born in Redcar, England where she spent her formative years being homeschooled and acting in local productions. Traditional education left her uninspired, so at the age of 18 she decided to forgo university and travel around the world instead. She visited a variety of countries including Australia before finally settling in Los Angeles where she now resides.
Katharine Lee McEwan | Early life
She was born in Busan, South Korea, the daughter of a Korean mother and a Polish father. The family eventually moved to Englewood, New Jersey, where she grew up and graduated from Dwight-Englewood School. About her childhood, she stated that "it's almost embarrassing how well-behaved I was, which is probably why I do things like spit water on myself on stage as an adult". She attended Oberlin College before transferring to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
Karen O | Early life
McCann was born in Brentwood, Essex to Gilly and Simon McCann on 6 August 1990. Gilly has also featured in a few episodes of "The Only Way Is Essex".
Ferne McCann | Early life
Baldwin was born in London, Ontario. Her father William is president of a real estate agency. Her mother Marion is a real estate broker. She has two brothers. Before becoming Miss Universe, she attended London Central Secondary School in London, Ontario.
Karen Dianne Baldwin | Early life
Hall was born in Chatham, Virginia to Ervis Hall and Flo Hall. Hall's younger sister, Barbara Hall, is also a television writer and producer. In 1974, Hall graduated from Chatham High School.
Karen Hall | Early life
The daughter of a Greek father and a Swedish mother, Sillas was born in Brooklyn and graduated from the Acting Conservatory of the State University of New York at Purchase .
Karen Sillas | Early life
Cargill was born in Arbroath, Scotland. Her father was a plumber and her mother worked in a bank. She attended Carnoustie Academy. She studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with an exchange year in Toronto, Canada.
Karen Cargill | Early life
O'Neil was born in Oakland, California to George Lamson and Arre Findley. When she decided to become an actress, her religious father, an auctioneer, denounced his daughter in church for going on the stage and asked the congregation to pray for her.
Nance O'Neil | Early life
Connors was born in New Jersey as Carol Campau. She grew up in New Jersey and Texas.
Carol Connors (actress) | Early life
Karen Delaney was born on January 16, 1959 (which is revealed in the show's season 8). Karen had a difficult childhood, thanks in part to her unstable relationship with her mother, Lois Whitley (played by Suzanne Pleshette), a con artist who incorporated her young daughter into her schemes. Karen has made many references in the show to her education and her maiden name, Delaney, which suggest she is of Irish-American background. Although she tries to keep her age a secret, Jack revealed that she was 42 in 2001, meaning she was born in January 1959. She has been married four times — her first husband's surname was St.
Karen Walker (Will &amp; Grace) | Early years
She was born in Malacca, Malaysia.
Karen Robson | Early life
Aikman was born in the London Borough of Brent in 1985, the daughter of actor and writer Stuart Aikman (known as Stuart St. Paul) and actress Jean Heard. She attended Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls in Elstree, Hertfordshire. She has a brother, Luke Aikman, who appeared as a child in the 1997 film "Fever Pitch".
Laura Aikman | Early life
Heder was born on June 23, 1977 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. She graduated from the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.
Sian Heder | Early life
Gillan's early television acting career included guest appearances on several television shows, with her first role being in an episode of ITV crime drama "Rebus", a role for which she had to drop out of school. Gillan undertook a two-year stint as a member of the ensemble cast of the sketch comedy series "The Kevin Bishop Show", in which she played multiple characters including celebrities such as Katy Perry and Angelina Jolie. Gillan also appeared on TV in a leading role in a horror project entitled "The Well", which was broadcast as a series of episodic short films on BBC Two and later as a web series on BBC.co.uk.
Karen Gillan | 2008–2013: Early roles and British stardom
Fryar was born in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1956. She attended Albury High School. She studied law and Japanese at the Australian National University.
Karen Fryar | Early life
Gillon was born in 1967 in Edinburgh to Edith Turnbull. She was educated at the state comprehensive Jedburgh Grammar School before going on to study at the University of Birmingham. Before entering politics, she worked in community education. From 1997 until 1999, she served as personal assistant to Helen Liddell MP.
Karen Gillon | Early life and career
Rose was born in Galway, though was raised in Cork.
Hilary Rose (actress) | Early life
Whitsett was born in Detroit, Michigan.
Karen Whitsett | Early life
Cheryl Gillan was born in Llandaff, a district of Cardiff, in 1952. Her father was a former British Army officer and a director of a steel company whilst her mother was a Wren. She was brought up in South Wales and her family farms near Usk. She was educated at Elm Tree House and Norfolk House primary schools in Cardiff before her family left Wales when she was aged 11. Gillan attended the independent Cheltenham Ladies' College and the College of Law. She is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Cheryl Gillan | Early life
Susan Silo was born in New York City, New York. Both her parents are actors.
Susan Silo | Early life
On 17 August 1978, Lam was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Karena Lam | Early life
Cox was born in Canberra. She attended Daramalan College and Menai College. She was a model before she became an actress.
Lara Cox | Early life
She was born in Surbiton and has recalled many holidays at the caravan park in Font-y-Gary in South Wales as a child. She trained at the Stage School, Corona Theatre School and has acted since the age of four.
Susan George (actress) | Early life
Mathis was born November 7, 1950 in Providence, Rhode Island.
Karen J. Mathis | Early life
Gould was born in Los Angeles, California, to a Jewish family.
Kelly Gould | Early life
Allen was born in Carrollton, Illinois, to Ruth Patricia ( Howell), a university professor, and Carroll Thompson Allen, an FBI agent. She is of English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh descent. Her father's job forced the family to move often. "I grew up moving almost every year and so I was always the new kid in school and always in a way was deprived of ever really having any lasting friendships", Allen said in 1987. Although Allen says her father was very much involved in the family, she felt that her two sisters and she grew up in a very female-dominated household.
Karen Allen | Early life
David was born in Shillong, Meghalaya, India, of what she calls "Chinese, Khasi and a sliver of Jewish heritage". Her mother is Khasi and half Chinese, whereas her father is an Indian-Jewish. She was raised in Canada and then at age 17, David moved to London to study at the Guildford School of Acting.
Karen David | Early life
Tointon was born to parents Ken and Carol in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. She and her actress sister Kara (born 1983) were brought up in Leigh-on-Sea and attended St Michael's School, Leigh, and St Hilda's School in Westcliff-on-Sea.
Hannah Tointon | Early life
Karen Cook was born and raised in London, the only child of a car mechanic father.
Karen Cook (banker) | Early life
Harrold was born in Tazewell, Virginia, to B.H. and Carolyn Harrold. She attended Tazewell High School and Mills College in Oakland, California, majoring in drama. She studied acting at HB Studio in New York City.
Kathryn Harrold | Early life
The daughter of John Kerrigan and Sarah McLean Kerrigan, she was born in Louisville, Kentucky, but moved with her family to New Albany, Indiana. Her brothers were actor J. Warren Kerrigan and film executive Wallace W. Kerrigan.
Kathleen Kerrigan (actress) | Early years
Jones was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to Reg Jones, a journalist, and Jean Jones (nee Staniforth), a secretary, and educated at Vancouver High School and LAMDA
Carolyn Jones (British actress) | Early life
Kinmont was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of actress Abby Dalton and Jack Smith.
Kathleen Kinmont | Early years
Hanna graduated with a First Class degree in Modern Languages from Trinity College, Dublin. She went on to work as an actor as well as a translator.
Gillian Hanna | Early life
Carroll was born in Preston.
Jenna Carroll | Early life
Monaghan was born March 19, 1964 in Orange County, California. She is of Irish-Celt ancestry and started acting in high school.
Marjorie Monaghan | Early life
McGoohan is the eldest daughter of American-born (to Irish parents) actor Patrick McGoohan and his widow, British former stage actress Joan Drummond. She has two younger sisters, Anne (b. 1959) and Frances (b. 1960).
Catherine McGoohan | Early life
Shehnaaz Kaur Gill was born and raised in Punjab. Gill is of Punjabi descent and belongs to a Sikh family. Gill did her schooling initially from Gems Cambridge International School in Hoshiarpur and later from Dalhousie hill top school and is a dropout from Lovely Professional University. Shehnaaz loved to act and sing and this was her passion since her childhood. She was keen on becoming an actor.
Shehnaaz Kaur Gill | Early life
Wallan grew up in Klamath Falls, Oregon.
Kim Wallan | Early life
Gill was born in New York and raised in Mandarin, Florida. She was one of six children and the daughter of a psychiatrist. She attended California State University, Long Beach and earned a degree in theater.
Libby Gill | Early life and education
Born in New York, she attended the University of Texas in Austin where she gained a M.F.A in acting.
Kimberly Dilts | Early life
Keating was born on 5 October 1962 in Fulham, west London, to parents from Northern Ireland. When she was three months old her family returned to Northern Ireland where she was raised. Her parents were the television presenter Gloria Hunniford and the BBC producer Donald Keating. Keating attended Methodist College, Belfast, where she gained 8 'O' levels and 3 'A' levels. She was accepted to study at the University of Bristol where she graduated three years later aged 21 with a BA Honours Degree in English and Drama.
Caron Keating | Early life and education
Whelan was born in Leeds and grew up in the Midlands. She attended The King's High School for Girls in Warwick and the London Studio Centre.
Gemma Whelan | Early life
Born in San Francisco, California, Brannagh is of Irish ancestry. She is the fourth child of nine children. She began auditioning for roles around age 13.
Brigid Brannagh | Early life and education
Tong was born in Bristol in 1951, and attended Rose Bruford College. She started her television career in the 1970s, and one of her first roles was in an episode of "Thriller".
Jacqueline Tong | Early life
Egan was born on 25 August 1970. She comes from Kilbarchan, near Glasgow.
Jane Egan | Early life
McGann was born in 1990 in the Midlands, England.
Emma McGann | Early life
Williams was born in Vancouver Island, British Columbia, the daughter of Simone and Jack Williams, a tugboat skipper and logger. She is the widow of social and political activist Tom Hayden.
Barbara Williams (actress) | Early life
Collins was born in Mill Road Hospital, Liverpool, England in 1978. She attended Prenton High School for Girls and then Birkenhead Sixth Form College.
Suzanne Collins (actress) | Early life
Lee was born on June 24, 1942, in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Sylvia Helen (née Silverstein) and Jack Dusick, a make-up artist. She is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, her ancestors being from Poland and Russia. She attended Alexander Hamilton High School. Her television career began at age 19, on the December 26, 1961, episode of the CBS-TV sitcom "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis".
Michele Lee | Early life
O'Brien was born in Liverpool. She attended Notre Dame School in that city, as well as the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
Maureen O'Brien | Early life
McMahon was born in Kansas City, Missouri. She later moved to New York City where she studied acting under Stella Adler. As an actress, she appeared on such television shows as "Dennis the Menace", "The Twilight Zone", "Love, American Style", "The Bob Newhart Show", and "Welcome Back, Kotter".
Jenna McMahon | Early life
Whelan was a native of Salt Lake City, Utah. Before she became an actress, she worked in Southern California as a manicurist, contributing her earnings to help with her family's expenses.
Arleen Whelan | Early years
Taylor Dearden Cranston was born in Los Angeles, California, on February 12, 1993, the daughter of actor Bryan Cranston and actress Robin Gale Dearden. In 2015, she graduated from the University of Southern California with a BA in theater.
Taylor Dearden | Early life
Thiam was born in Brussels. She has wanted to be an actress since the age of four. She took a course in acting in New York.
Jenna Thiam | Early life
Elson was born in Oldham, Greater Manchester, and attended North Chadderton School as a child. She has a fraternal twin sister, filmmaker Kate Elson.
Karen Elson | Early life and education
Sharon Maughan grew up in Kirkby, Lancashire, with her four siblings.
Sharon Maughan | Early life
McNulty was born on November 7, 2001 to an Irish father and a Canadian mother. She is from Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland. She is an only child and she was home schooled. McNulty was cast, from more than 1,800 girls auditioning internationally, in the title role of the series "Anne with an E".
Amybeth McNulty | Early life
Keanan was born in Devon, Pennsylvania (near Philadelphia), the daughter of Jacqueline (née Love) and Irv Sagorsky, a car salesman. She has a sister, Pilar.
Staci Keanan | Early life
Gilbert was born in Ermelo, South Africa.
Kayleigh Gilbert | Early life
Born in England, Gill never knew his father. He immigrated to Australia with his actress wife Carole Ann Gill.
Terry Gill | Early life
Lally was born at 20 Perham Road, Fulham, London, to 'gentleman' Jocelyn Henry Speck and Rosalie Hughes Dalrymple. She was the eldest of three children. As a child she had a passion for Shakespeare and acting, and became an actress despite parental opposition.
Gwen Lally | Early life
Kathryn Osterman was born in Toledo, Ohio, one of the six daughters of M. D. Osterman and Margarete O'Connor Osterman. Several of her sisters were also actresses, including Lillian Osterman and Anna Belmont.
Kathryn Osterman | Early life
After being born in New York City, she moved to Paris and grew up in an English- and French-speaking home. At the age of ten Farman was accepted into the Bilingual Acting Workshop for professional actors in Paris.
Melissa Farman | Early life
She received a Fulbright Fellowship to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in London. She apprenticed at the Actor's Workshop of San Francisco in 1961-62.
Karen Grassle | Early life
Flannigan was born in Inglewood, California. She began acting professionally in 1985. She attended the University of Southern California.
Maureen Flannigan | Personal life
Born in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada but raised in Fort William, Scotland, since the age of five, she was educated at Lochaber High School and the University of Glasgow.
Fiona O'Donnell | Early life
Miller was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She first started acting in a dinner theater she found in a newspaper ad, and she didn't know what the word audition meant. She asked her Dad what that meant and he told her. She graduated from Allentown's William Allen High School. Her mother was a homemaker and her father a pajama factory owner.
Lara Jill Miller | Early life
Karen Kilgariff grew up outside Petaluma, California with her mother, Patricia (née Knight) who died in 2016, father Jim, and an older sister. Both of Karen's parents worked; her father was a San Francisco firefighter and her mother was a psychiatric nurse. She attended St. Vincent de Paul High School in Petaluma.
Karen Kilgariff | Early life
Bracken grew up just outside Fort William near the village of Spean Bridge. She attended Kilmonivaig Primary School before attending Lochaber High School. After graduating from Telford College, Edinburgh she went to Motherwell College, where she obtained an acting degree in 2011. She then met with casting directors, found representation from an agent, and moved to London.
Kate Bracken | Early life
Fox was born in Lower Hutt, Wellington.
Kerry Fox | Early life
Gyngell was born in Sydney. Her father was Bruce Gyngell, an Australian television executive.
Skye Gyngell | Early life
Karen Sheila Gillan (; born 28 November 1987) is a Scottish actress, filmmaker and former model. She first began acting with guest roles on television, before receiving recognition for portraying Amy Pond, a primary companion to the Eleventh Doctor, in the BBC One series "Doctor Who" (2010–2013), for which she received critical acclaim, and she received several awards and nominations, including winning a National Television Award. Gillan's early film roles include the horror film "Outcast" (2010) and the romantic comedy film "Not Another Happy Ending" (2013). Gillan relocated to the US in 2013, and starred in the film "Oculus" (2013), and played the lead in the ABC/Hulu series "Selfie" (2014).
Karen Gillan | Introduction
Tomasin was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, Northern England, in 1938 to working class parents. She knew from an early age she wanted to be an actress, although her parents did not support her goal.
Jenny Tomasin | Early life
Dunbar was born in Ayr and moved to Glasgow at an early age. She attended Ayr Academy, a secondary school in Ayr.
Karen Dunbar | Early life
Wade was born in Girvan, Scotland, moved to Llandrindod Wells, Wales aged three and attended school there.
Kirsty Wade | Early life
Karen Hein was born in 1944 in New York City. Her father was a physician. Her mother also showed great interest in medicine, auditing classes at Karen's father's medical school and volunteering in his genetics lab, while at the same time caring for the couple's four children. Karen later said that she became a physician "because my mother couldn't".
Karen Hein | Early life
Adams was born on August 15, 1974. She was raised in London, England to Jamaican immigrants.
Christine Adams (actress) | Early life
Gilligan's father was an accountant and her mother a speech therapist. Her brother David is ten years her senior, and the family hail from Blackrock, where she grew up.
Ruth Gilligan | Early life
McSweeney was born in County Cork, Ireland. Before acting, she did a science degree at the University College Cork. In 2001, she moved to London when she secured a place at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Siobhán McSweeney | Early life
Born in Los Angeles, California, on July 10, 1969, she is the daughter of Bridget (Mori) and the actor David Hedison. Hedison is of Italian and Armenian heritage. She attended the State University of New York at Purchase and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Alexandra Hedison | Early life
Godliman was born in Perivale, West London, and trained at Rose Bruford College in South London.
Kerry Godliman | Early life
Born in Leek, Staffordshire, her family then moved to Shrewsbury, and aged nine to Penkridge, Staffordshire. She attended Wolgarston High School, and then trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
Rebekah Staton | Early life
In 2010, she won in the Entertainment category at the Young Scot Awards. She appeared in the sixth series in 2011 and the first five episodes of the seventh series in 2012, after which her character and Rory Williams (portrayed by Arthur Darvill) left the series. Gillan reprised her role in the 2013 Christmas special "The Time of the Doctor", to coincide with Smith's departure as the Doctor.
Karen Gillan | 2008–2013: Early roles and British stardom
Pulliam, born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, always wanted to be an actress.
Nicole Pulliam | Early life
Carol was born in Hillsdale, New Jersey. She acted in New York theatrical productions as a child. When she was 11, her family relocated to Miami. She graduated from Florida State University, where she studied theater and broadcasting.
Jean Carol | Early life
Robertson was born in Hamilton, Ontario and attended Sherwood Secondary School and Hillfield Strathallan College, a local private school. She started taking acting classes when she was ten and had roles in local theatre productions. Her first television appearances were in "The Campbells", "My Secret Identity" and "E.N.G."
Kathleen Robertson | Early life
Elizabeth Egan Gillies was born in Haworth, New Jersey, on July 26, 1993, to Dave and Lorrie Gillies. She has one younger brother, born 1996. Gillies has stated that she has Irish ancestry, and an Italian grandmother and great-grandmother. Gillies' acting career began at age 12, when she started going to local open casting calls. She quickly began appearing in commercials for companies such as Virgin Mobile. She left high school in her freshman year to pursue acting and participated in an online high school program. Her first television role was as a recurring character in "The Black Donnellys". She has stated that she was not allowed to watch the finished show in its entirety because her parents felt it was not appropriate for her at the time.
Elizabeth Gillies | 1993–2009: Early life and career beginnings
Morris was born in Loch Arbour, New Jersey and spent much of her childhood in Hong Kong. Her father worked in the electronics industry. Morris studied acting at Purchase College, where she graduated in 1982. She was also a classmate of Stanley Tucci.
Haviland Morris | Early life
Jiordan Anna Tolli was born on 17 June 1994, in Melbourne, Victoria to parents Luke and Vanda. Her cousin, Fabio Tolli, was married to her former "Neighbours" co-star Kym Valentine, who played Libby Kennedy. Prior to entering "The X Factor", she performed in a lot of musical theatre.
Jiordan Tolli | Early life
Kathy Ireland was born in Glendale, California, the daughter of John and Barbara Ireland.
Kathy Ireland | Early life
Lynch was born in Golden Valley, Minnesota, the daughter of Barbara, a modern dancer, and Robert Lynch, a restaurateur. She attended the Guthrie Theater. She worked as a flight attendant after leaving college. She worked as a model for the Elite modeling agency before acting.
Kelly Lynch | Early life
Denison was born in the early 1940s in Penshurst, Sydney, to a father who was a doctor and a mother who was a nurse. She was educated at Presbyterian Ladies' College in Croydon.
Sue Denison | Early life
Young was born in San Francisco, California, to Marie and Thomas Young. Her mother is of African-American descent, her father is of Scottish descent.
Kara Young | Early life
Valentine was born in Sebastopol, California, on May 25, 1947. She is of Portuguese heritage, and her grandfather changed the family name from Valentin before her birth.
Karen Valentine | Early life
Born in New York City, Collyer chose to use her mother's maiden name when she decided to pursue acting. Her father was Clayton Heermance, an attorney in New York.
June Collyer | Early life
Kelly was born in Liverpool, the daughter of a Liverpool dock worker.
Angela Kelly | Early life