This Country's Daisy May Cooper says that before she found fame she was "completely humiliated" by being offered a Father Christmas job when she finished RADA and had to visit the Job Centre.
The star, who has won multiple awards for her hilarious BBC Three mockumentary, revealed she "hit rock bottom" after finishing at the prestigious drama school and visited the Job Centre desperate for work.
Cooper, who starred in This Country alongside her brother Charlie, said a job adviser offered her a "DJ gig in a club in Cheltenham" or a "Father Christmas slot in Swindon arcade." At the time, the now-successful actor was exasperated as she couldn't even get a kitchen porter job in her local curry house.
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