Killing Eve star Fiona Shaw has revealed how she was robbed while working on her first professional role at the Edinburgh Festival.
And the Cork actress said she survived with no money by living on baked potatoes from a takeaway.
The 62-year-old told a BBC documentary about the Fringe: “My very first experience of attending the Edinburgh Festival was way back in the early 1980s.
“I suppose I had never been anywhere, certainly not as an actor, because we were just out of drama school. It felt like the very thing that I had always wanted. Edinburgh was just the most stupendous city.
“We were all living in a church hall. We all just slept in sleeping bags on the floor in little rows.
“I had won a sum of money with this prize at RADA and that very quickly got robbed. I had this agony and ecstasy of being at the Edinburgh Festival with literally no money.
"We ate at Spudulike, rehearsed and put on our play and saw everything that was on. You saw all the heroes you wanted to see.”
The Fleabag star had graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and had won a part in a production of Deborah Warner’s Woyzeck, her very first job as an actor in 1982.
Shaw went on to have a glittering career and recently received her second Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series for hit show Killing Eve.
