Mark Bonnar: What did you want to be when you were growing up?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

This is a standing question in The Guardian's decades-long The Q&A and also recurs independently in career and life interviews.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Mark Bonnar said elsewhere, not written here

First, I wanted to be a historian, then a drummer, and after that I just wanted to be employed. And I still do.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 April 2025 source ↗

Others on this question

Joss Stone English singer, songwriter, and actress

A veterinarian, but I decided against it because it required too many years of schooling; I wasn’t great at school.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 April 2021 source ↗

Paterson Joseph British actor and author

A private detective.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 February 2020 source ↗

Shirley Ballas English ballroom dancer

Dancing was in my bones from when I started ballet at two.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 June 2018 source ↗

Ivan Lendl Czech and American tennis player

I always wanted to play tennis. Otherwise, I always thought it would be fun to do something in mathematics or physics.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 July 2017 source ↗