'I would love to have had a career like Kate Winslet's – but the chance never came my way'What got you started?Playing Irina in a student production of Three Sisters at the Oxford Playhouse while I was at university. For some reason that play, with that director and that combination of people, really hit home with the audience. It was the first time I got swept up in the dream of what acting can really be.What was your big breakthrough?Getting cast as Sally Bowles in a production of Cabaret at the Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich while I was at Rada. I'd never done a musical before, but director Dick Tuckey took a chance on me, and got me a coveted ...