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Maggie O'Neill's career at a glance - Radio Times, February 2004 |
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Jane Rackham charts the actress's path to fame.
"Maggie O'Neill's latest role is as Shameless's
valium-filled Sheila,
an agoraphobic dominatrix
with a fear of people wearing shoes indoors.
While the 36-year-old is nothing like her
character,
she does have a few phobias of her
own:
"The silence of the countryside at night
freaks me out," says the London-based actress,
who slept with the lights on while filming Peak Practice
in Derbyshire.
She was also scared of flying until she had to sit in the cockpit of an RAF jet plane for the sci-fi
series Invasion:
Earth.
O'Neill grew up in the Midlands,
the youngest
of six children whose parents were both head
teachers.
But she was a
"terrible skiver" from the
strict convent school she attended.
Inspired by a
sixth-form drama teacher,
she
"fell" into acting,
landing roles in the British movie Mona Lisa
and
the BBC docudrama Killing Me Softly.
But in
1993,
despite her dread of losing her privacy,
she
played Dr
Alex Redman in the long-running Peak
Practice
and became a household name.
O'Neill
is also in the new BBC1 drama Family Business,
so if fame was another of her phobias,
she must
be getting used to it by now."
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