Tag: Octavia Vermont

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.

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 🙂

Star Sign? – Gemini

Place of Birth – Dunedin, NZ

Height – 5′ 5″

Natural hair colour – Dark Blonde

Natural eye colour – Green

Do you wear glasses/contacts – No

Favourite meal – Breakfast – fresh fruit especially berries, pineapple and macadamia nuts – also sushi and sashimi (but not for breakfast).

Favourite drink – Carrot juice with ginger in it.

Single/attached – Attached

Favourite holiday destination – Anywhere I haven’t been before, though I like Stockholm very much.

Favourite pastimes/hobbies – Painting, drawing, cooking, swimming in the sea.

Top 3 CD’s of the moment – “Big Night” Soundtrack, “Moulin Rouge” Soundtrack, Diana Krall “All for you”

Top 3 movies of the moment – Lord of the Rings! and Pretty Woman

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

Favourite actor/actress – Emma Thompson and Julia Roberts and Daniel Auteil

– Cookie Monster – you’d always get some bits of cookie

Favourite saying – “You must be the change you wish to see in the world” – Ghandi

Brothers/sisters – 1 brother, 18 months older

Live at home / flatting – Flatting with four others

Idea man – If I love them, they’ll be ideal for me
Sum yourself up in 5 words – Changeable, striving, adaptable, odd, light

Get somebody else to sum you up in 5 words – Argumentative, loving, busy, bright, kind (my grandmother)