Book description
'I've always been wilful...I've always been stubborn and always
determined'One of our best-loved actresses, Celia Imrie would rather
have been a dancer. As a child she planned to join the Royal Ballet and
marry Rudolf Nureyev. Now she has become one of our finest and funniest
performers, on stage, TV and screen - adored for her roles inAcorn
Antiques anddinnerladies, as well as films includingCalendar Girls
andNanny McPhee. In her hugely entertaining autobiography Celia Imrie
recounts a life hurtling (not always intentionally) into adventures both
on stage and off. Whether it's finding herself on stage with half the
scenery stuck to her cardigan, or being kidnapped on her way to
location. Somehow she emerges from the chaos that can lie in her wake
almost unscathed. Acting, she admits, is a mad, chaotic profession and
it is her refreshing honesty, sense of mischief, fun and almost
unruffled determination in the face of it all that makes this
autobiography a never-ending delight. Celia Imrie is an Olivier
Award-winning actress. In a career starting in the early 1970s, Imrie
has played Marianne Bellshade in Bergerac, Philippa Moorcroft in
Dinnerladies, Celia in Calendar Girls and most famously Miss Babs in
Acorn Antiques, among many others. She has been described as 'one of the
greatest British actresses of recent decades' and now lives in London
and the Isle of Wight.
