About Gina Bellman: Gina Bellman is a New Zealand-born British actress who starred in the series Leverage as Sophie Devereaux.
I started elocution lessons because I was being teased, and I had a brilliant drama teacher. At the age of 14, I appeared at the National Theatre in 'The Crucible.'
Many American TV actors employ agents, managers, business managers, publicists and stylists, and are now adding digital media manager to the list. Their job is to reach out to the fans, managing websites, Twitter feeds, Facebook and Wikipedia.
There is nothing worse than sitting in the make-up trailer knowing that the whole crew are twiddling their thumbs waiting for you to change your hair from straight to curly or up to down. Sometimes it can't be avoided.
Any friendship or relationship is about a language.
I've never worked in my natural accent, having studied so hard to get rid of it when I moved to England as a child where I was bullied at school for 'talking funny.'
Every person has parallel tracks. You have your personal life or your life as an artist, or whatever it is you do.
Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first.
I love acting, and I have no desire to direct.
I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village.
I think there was a petition online to get me involved in 'Doctor Who.' I'm not a 'Doctor Who' fanatic, but I am a Steven Moffat fanatic.
I don't like crowds or attention.
I've had my taste of intense fame, and I've got it out of my system. Now I'm free to choose parts which fulfil me in different ways.
It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.
I'm not really that keen on mainstream; I'm not interested in doing the normal films. I do tend to go for the quirky, different scripts.
I have always liked family-type dramas; I just think the dynamics in families make for some really interesting characters.
I am a big comedy fan, having been in 'Coupling.'
My all-time favourite programme is 'Seinfeld;' I could just sit and watch that over and over again.
Some people think it's an easy gig working as an extra, but you often have to stay very concentrated for long stretches in challenging conditions.
One of the things you have to get used to, working on a TV show, is filming out of sync.
One of the things that takes a bit of getting used to on an American series is having a different director, and often writer, every week.
