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What did you want to be when you were growing up?

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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.

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Read by field Everyone Arts and letters 39 Politics and public life 2 Sport 1
Read by age Any age In their thirties 4 In their forties 6 In their fifties 13 In their sixties 10 Seventy and beyond 9
Giovanna Fletcher
An actress. I started when I was 13 at theatre school. My first assembly, Tom and I were sat next to each other.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 February 2024 source ↗

Andrea Bocelli
A singer. I wanted to live off music ever since I was a child – a wish that came true when I was over 35 years old.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 November 2024 source ↗

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

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

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