Michelle Gomez
Michelle Gomez
Michelle Gomezis a Scottish actress. She is best known for her comedy roles in Green Wing, The Book Group and Bad Education, and for playing Missy, a female incarnation of the Master, in the British television sci-fi series Doctor Who...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth21 April 1971
CityGlasgow, Scotland
feed given opportunity work
I always say: 'If I'm lucky enough to be given the opportunity to work again, that's it, I'm being wheeled on, sitting on a sofa, and someone's going to feed me grapes, and I'm not getting up.'
humour people transient
I'd always used humour as a weapon, as a protection. But being able to make people laugh is a way of not getting in too deep; it's a quick, transient fix.
worrying
I bring so much of myself to each character that there's always a worrying point when I think: 'Oh no, I'm really that person.'
slightly worried
I'm always slightly worried if I do a film and we're filming it in Luxembourg. I know it's going to go straight DVD.
period runs tried
I've always been a gurner. I tried to reel it in. You know there was a period when I thought I was going to be a really serious actress, but the gurning... I can't get in control of it. It just runs away with me.
scottish statement
I feel so Scottish when I go abroad, and I'm so proud of it, but for me, it's not a political statement - I just happen to be Scottish.
shout silly soup totally
I have no real ambition or strategy. If this was all to finish, it's totally fine. There's a lot more to do out there than put on silly frocks and shout for a living. I could always go back to, 'Would you like soup with that?'
type wore
Jack wasn't my type at all. I thought he was too young and too posh, and I told him that. Plus, I couldn't deal with his dodgy bowl-cut. But he wore me down.