After finishing high school, I went to England to work as an an au pair in beautiful Cornwall in the South West. Being an au pair meant staying with a family, looking after their children for a small salary and learning the English language for one year. I always preferred the country side and its nature rather than city-life.

In Cornwall some significant things happened, which would have great impact on my continued life journey. Apart from practising English with the family I stayed with, I went to evening classes in English and took art classes, learning about how to mix colour and the foundation of painting. I joined an amateur theatre company and fought my shyness of being in the centre of attention by going on stage. It was full of fear and at the same time very attracted to the theatre at the same time.

As if I needed this to come out of my shell. My passion for the theatre was so strong that there was nothing else i wanted to do in life except theatre work. In 1986 I started studying theatre and acting in London. It was a hard training for three years of method acting, meaning that you imagine being the character you play, and research everything about the historical period and the kind of life that person would live, and live it to learn and become the person on stage. I kept pushing myself, and kept being tense in my body, but learning a lot on the way.