Doctor Who: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Michelle Gomez

5. She Invented Jobs To Cover Up Her Embarrassment Of Being Unemployed

Before she scored her big acting break, Gomez was forced to seek alternative methods of employment after leaving The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Jobs were inevitably hard to come by for the fresh-faced acting graduate and, to make ends meet, she cleaned lavatories, spent time as a kitchen porter, presented karaoke nights and worked as a waitress, an occupation she seemingly loathed judging by what she told the London Evening Standard: "I spent ten odd years asking, "Would you like bread with that?'" When she wasn't in work, Gomez would often invent roles to hide the shame of being unemployed and admitted to duping friends with on many occasions down the years with completely fabricated jobs. She even went to the lengths of obtaining a fake laminated cabbies license to pass herself off as a taxi driver, revealing to the Scotsman that it was her favourite made up job during one relatively lean period.