Hugh Bonneville
At 16 I was already preoccupied with acting. I was always a bit of a performer as a child. I wasn’t out there in tap shoes and sequins but I loved making up and starring in plays. The boys in my road in Blackheath, where I grew up in south-east London, they all wanted to go off and play football and German soldiers. And I said, fine, I’ll do that, so long as you come and be in my play. So I would write these little plays which we performed on the landing at my house. And I’d be the king, and they’d play my servants. And I also made the tickets and I was in charge of costumes and the seating arrangements and I was head usher.
But my brother was much more interested in my dad’s new radio, which he was glued to
