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DR LEGGS’ report on OCTAVIA VERMONT (Elizabeth McGlinn)

DR LEGGS’ report on OCTAVIA VERMONT (Elizabeth McGlinn)

Hello, I am Dr Leggs, the resident psychiatrist of Sunset Cove. Many interesting people come to see me about their problems (and you can sometimes see me in Atlantis High!). Each week I’m profiling different Sunset Covers – and this week is the beautiful and enigmatic Octavia Vermont.

Name:Octavia Vermont
Age: 17 years old but seems oh so much more mature
Status:

High school beauty teen and academic dream queen

Appearance:Always immaculately dressed in various shades of purple. Knee high boots or sexy kitten heels are a great favourite. Long line jackets and Alice hair bands complete the look.
Past History:On the surface it appears that all is perfect in this esteemed Sunset Cove family. The Vermont’s are a happily married couple, live in a dream house and the Commander has a record of heroism in the army (or does he…) Mrs. Vermont is the ideal mother and both parents dote on their only child. Octavia has always done well academically and socially and everyone in Sunset Cove is very fond of her (apart from Sabrina).
Motives:Octavia wants the world to be a safe place and works hard to make sure it is kept that way. She will stop at nothing to follow through with her instincts and watches people very closely indeed in case she can learn something from them. Octavia also seems to want to find her true love, her soulmate, and holds back from guys she considers to be a waste of space. She does not play the usual ‘getting on with people’ game and talks to people only when and if she feels like doing so.
Influences:Octavia is not influenced by anybody! She is one smart cookie and knows exactly what she wants to do and will just get out there and do it. She does not follow the crowd and ‘peer pressure’ is not a phrase in her dictionary.
Strengths: This chick is a sassy dresser, a championship swimmer and gymnast – she is smart, kind, sensitive, knows all sorts of secret codes, can speak several languages and is a master in the martial arts. A good cook, homekeeper and friend to those she lets in to her heart. Octavia can keep a secret and is wonderful at creeping around, unnoticed force to contend with indeed.
Weaknesses: Octavia has a weakness for true love and when she finds it I think there will be some major problems. It will throw her off balance more than she thinks possible. Octavia is a sucker for secrets and mysteries and the more there is to find out, the more involved Octavia becomes. She is like a pit bull terrier when it comes to secrets and mysteries, she just won’t let them go until she knows the truth behind them.
Catchphrases: “The wildebeest may be migrating but the seahorse counts his blessings” – “Josh I am NOT interested” – “Hi Giles” – “But Mother” – “What do you mean…?”
Secrets:.Oh there’s a storm a comin’ I am sure. There is more mystery behind this girlie than there are to the Mysteries of the Great Pyramids.
Rumours:

I’m certainly not one to gossip. I swore the Hypocrite’s oath and all but I have heard whispers in the Princess Diner that Octavia is involved with a secret service of some sort. And that her family is not quite as it seems…and uh, that she is not really a blonde!

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Elizabeth McGlinn plays Octavia Vermont in Atlantis High Page 2

Elizabeth McGlinn plays Octavia Vermont in Atlantis High

What are your characters strengths and weaknesses? Strengths – self reliance. Weaknesses – she tends to assume other people are less capable than she is.

Are you like your character in real life – if so, then in what ways? She is much more self assured than I am, but I am like her in her busyness – we are both always up to something – following a plan.

How would you describe Atlantis High?
Funny, irreverrent, unpredictable!

Favourite phrase, quote or motto?
I have a favourite quote – from “The Prophet” by Kahlil Gibran

“Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face
But you are life and you are the veil
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror
But you are eternity and youare the mirror”

Favourite book of all time?
The Prophet – by Kahlit Gibran is the best book of all time.

Favourite actor/actress?
Emma Thompson, Julia Roberts and Daniel Auteul

Do you have a nickname?
Ziz

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Elizabeth McGlinn plays Octavia Vermont in Atlantis High
Full name? Elizabeth Sarah Jane McGlinn

Date of birth? 7th June 1981

Star Sign? Gemini

 

What are your top movies/videos at the moment? Lord of the Rings! Pretty Woman

 

What music do you like? Anything I can sing or dance to, but also classical music. At the moment my favourites are “Big Night” soundtrack, “Moulin Rouge” soundtrack and Diana Krall “All for You”

 

Have you travelled around? What is your favourite place or places? New Zealand!! – especially central Otago. Also Finland and Wales.

 

Amateur theatre and piano

 

What do you think are the properties of a good actor? Versatility, passion and open-mindedness. The ability to love people easily in order to portray your character and to get on with the cast and crew.

 

How would you describe your character? Octavia is confident, highly skilled, mature.

 

What was your very first tv role? Justine on a program called Jackson’s Wharf. I was a bully at a teenager’s party, pressuring a younger girl to drink beer.

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Elizabeth McGlinn plays Octavia Vermont in Atlantis High

Elizabeth McGlinn plays Octavia Vermont in Atlantis High



At what age did you want to start acting? Around 3! I used to get my cousins together at Christmas and put on plays – like improvised Cinderella one year – we’d dress up by raiding my aunt’s wardrobe. 

What was your very first tv/movie role? “Justine” on Jackson’s Wharf. I was a bully at a teenager’s party, pressuring a younger girl to drink beer.

 

When and why did you get an agent? I first tried when I finished high school/college because I was told that was the only way I could become a professional actor. The agent I chose told me to see her again when I had some training. So I did that and a few months later she accepted me.

 

Octavia, definitely on tv. On stage my favourite was Lancelot Gobbo, in the Merchant of Venice.

 

How did you get the part in Atlantis High? First I auditioned for the pilot and I thought I had done so badly and I wanted it so much that I cried when I went home. But a couple of days later my agent called me at the bakery where I worked and told me I got it. So I did series 1 after that.

 

I Sophie May! Because she’s so quirky, and I love that she can be nice as pie and then suddenly something will trigger her evil streak and she becomes very different.

 

Do you have any favourite Atlantis High scenes? All the scenes with Commander Vermont and his soldiers.

 

Were there any embarassing moments whilst filming Atlantis High? While Michael and Laura and I were operating on Don the Janitor, and I fluffed the same line about 10 times!

 

Constantly reinventing yourself. And representing different personalities to the world. Almost the way a lawyer explains a persons actions.

 

If you weren’t acting, what would you be doing right now? I’d like to start my own catering business, because I like creating things for people to enjoy and also organising things.

Are you hoping to continue with your acting career or do you want to direct/produce/become an astronaut? I definitely hope to experience the joys and stresses of producing, and if there was something I had a lot of knowledge about and passion for, I would love to direct, but I feel both of those (and being an astronaut too) would mean I would have a lot of learning to do as an actor. At least I’ve made a start there, and that’s where I’ll continue for now. Whatever life throws at me it will be the right thing, whether I choose it or not.

 

Elizabeth McGlinn plays Octavia Vermont in Atlantis High

Elizabeth McGlinn plays Octavia Vermont in Atlantis High



What word best describes you? Changeable 

What is your all time favourite line of your character? “If I told you, I’d have to eliminate you”‘

What aspect of your character would you like to have? Her degrees from Harvard, Stamford.

If you could play any other role on television, who would it be? A travel show presenter

 

The ability to put a person in someone else’s shoes, to experience how they are feeling.

 

Define the perfect day? A Christmas Day in Central Otago with my four grandparents and entire extended family and friends too.

 

Which person – living, dead or fictional – do you most identify with? My mum.

 

What quality in yourself would you like to improve? My difficulty remembering people’s names

 

The Little Engine that could

 

If you could only eat one type of food for the rest of your life, what would it be? Fish.

 

What’s your favourite movie of all time? Sense and Sensibility

What’s your biggest complaint in life? People finishing the juice and putting the empty carton back in the fridge.

Who are your favourite actors? Daniel Autevil and Emma Thompson

It hasn’t happened yet.

Name your greatest regret. Not getting more of my Grandad and his wonderful stories on tape before he died.

What do you like most about acting? Being a part of creating something so complicated with so many other people.

What do you deplore most about acting? Not hearing back from auditions… your insecurities start to eat away at you and you just have to try to forget about it.

If you weren’t in show business, you would be? A caterer

What’s something in the world you’d like to see outlawed? Destruction of environments (forests, oceans) which provide life – use of the earths resources without replenishing them. And people putting empty juice containers back in the fridge 🙂