Laura Haddock - Lucrezia Donati

I see my daft surname as a positive thing.
It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me ‘Fishface’ on my first day at school. I’ve heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over. If I had a pound for every time someone has asked me if I’m related to Captain Haddock from The Adventures Of Tintin, I’d be extremely wealthy now.
I’m no overnight success.
Coming out of drama school, I lost count of the number of times I was rejected by The Bill. I’d audition for parts like ‘shoplifting girl’ or ‘girl in queue’. Rejection is hard to take. Ultimately you have to let all that go and accept that, however talented you are, so much of it is down to the luck of the draw.
If it wasn’t for my dad’s advice I’d be working as a policewoman.
As a kid I’d change my mind about my future career every day. Policewoman was the one I would always came back to. One day my dad said to me, ‘You don’t actually want to do any of those jobs. You want to be an actress who can play these people for a month at a time.’ It’s just as well I listened to him because I reckon I’d have made a terrible copper.
The secret of anonymity is a change of hairstyle.
The success of the The Inbetweeners Movie took everyone by surprise. No one expected it to become the biggest-grossing British comedy of all time. Straight after the movie came out I got the part of Beryl in Upstairs Downstairs and had to dye my hair brown and cut it short. It was the perfect disguise. I was in the biggest British film for years and yet I could be completely inconspicuous.
I believe in love at first sight.
It has to be true because it happened to me. I was at an audition with the actor Sam Claflin and we both felt the thunderbolt as soon as we met. I knew what I felt but it was only much later that I learned he’d run straight off to his agent and said, ‘I’ve just met the girl I want to marry.’


I’m not the new Cameron Diaz.
I’m not the new Keira Knightley either. I don’t know where these ideas come from. I’d rather be thought of as the one and only Laura Haddock. I’ll happily settle for that.
I’m probably borderline OCD.
I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it’s a weird way to behave.


I’m a creature of habit to an absurd degree.
I don’t read that many books but, when I find one I like, I tend to read it over and over again. When I first moved to London I was frightened by all the noise so I used to read Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary every night. I must have read it at least 60 times from cover to cover. It made me feel all cosy and warm.
I wouldn’t say no to becoming a Bond girl.
Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick. Barbara Broccoli is welcome to call me any time. Haddock and Broccoli would surely make the perfect Hollywood meal.
I’m something of a walking calamity.
I had this huge crush on a boy at school who was two years above me. One day at lunch, I’d caught his eye and he was watching me as I got up to take my plate. My blazer got caught on the seat and I got my foot caught in the pocket of it and went flying across the room with the plate still in my hand. It didn’t put him off though.


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