David Jason
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Scrabbling about under dusty floorboards as an electrician in my early 20s.
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I worked on a trawler and I was seasick the whole time.
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Dominic Cooper
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I used to clean the ovens in a bakery. Brillo pad and poison.
I left the army and got a job with Unilever in Northern Ireland. They were very strict and you had to have a hat, and when you went into a shop you had to raise your hat to the shopkeeper and then sell your wares. I was selling margarine.
Noel Clarke
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Cleaning the changing rooms at Kensington leisure centre from the age of 16.
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