"I found trying to make it as an actress up there really hard and would constantly be running back to Wales to do bits and bobs in the theatre or on telly, like voicing kids' cartoons on S4C," sighs Lisa. "It just seemed to me that the casting directors in London can't take a...
"After that, like most kids, I really got into Enid Blyton, because there are so many of them you keep going back for more." Her selected A-Level subjects - German, English and religious studies - also spoke to her interest in stories and all things European. At 18 she finally lef...