Lemn Sissay. What happened to him and what he’s done with his life is extraordinary.
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Sarah Hadland
b. 1971
Born in Hertfordshire, Sarah Hadland, 54, attended Laine Theatre Arts college in Surrey. From 2009 to 2015, she played Stevie in the Bafta-nominated sitcom Miranda, and her other television work includes Horrible Histories, Waterloo Road, W1A, The Job Lot and Daddy Issues. This Christmas, she appears on The Festive Pottery Throwdown and The Celebrity Apprentice, and stars as the Wicked Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the Marlowe theatre in Canterbury. She lives with her child in London.
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Very impatient, bossy, always late.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 December 2025 source ↗
Speedy, bossy, loving.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 December 2025 source ↗
A glow of wellbeing.
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Years ago, I was trying to get with one of the big agencies and I cobbled together a VHS tape of me in adverts and sobbing in The Bill, and took it United Agents for the attention of Dallas Smith. A week later I went back and said, “Has she looked at the tape?” And they were, like, “Dallas is a he, no he hasn’t and he doesn’t want to,” and handed it back to me.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 December 2025 source ↗
A missionary in Africa – I think that was Sunday school-based.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 December 2025 source ↗
“You’ll never, ever work.” When you are young and full of hopes and dreams it’s devastating. I am just grateful that I thought: “Well, I’m going to try.”
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Magician’s assistant on a cruise ship for two weeks when I was 19. When I was meant to be being levitated, I was silently crying while pretending to be unconscious as I hung limply off a metal pole. It was bleak.
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You are good enough.
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