First person

Liam Cunningham: 47, actor, Dublin.

Coming out of movies as a young fella, I always had this idea that I wanted to get involved. But I thought that world wasn’t open tome.

I was working as an electrician and I was bored. When I was 27, I started going to the Oscar Theatre School. It took just a few weeks of classes and I was addicted. I couldn’t get enough of it.

I’ve played a couple of real ...