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I did everything, I used to be a drag queen, I used to be a stripper.

~Deobia Oparei

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It's all about the sensuality of movement, every movement you make. That's why I love doing action movies. It's all about movement, dance - even if you're hitting someone in the face. You've got to sell it all with great passion. There's a narrative to the body. It's exactly the same as dance.

~Deobia Oparei

Topics: About Action Action Movies Body Dance Doing Even Every Exactly Exactly The Same Face Got Great Hitting Love Make Movement Movies Narrative Passion Same Sell Sensuality Someone Why You I Love

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Part of the creative journey for me was not to come up the conventional route. I didn't go through drama school. I chose not to. I came from a very working-class area, a child of Nigerian immigrants.

~Deobia Oparei

Topics: Area Came Child Chose Come Conventional Creative Drama Drama School Go Immigrants Journey Me Nigerian Part Route School Through Up Very Working-Class I Came

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I got into this thing called the National Youth Theatre, and to me, that was all about the status quo. It seemed to me like 'Downton Abbey' - all the working-class and black people were playing servants, or the gravedigger in 'Hamlet,' and the boys from Eton and posh private schools got Hamlet, all the big roles.

~Deobia Oparei

Topics: Abbey About Big Black Boy Downton Abbey Got Hamlet Like Me National People Playing Posh Private Quo Roles Schools Seemed Servants Status Status Quo Theatre Thing Were Working-Class Youth

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I always wanted to experience what performance would be like without the fourth wall, so I formed a company in Australia, and we did avant-garde theater, playing with gender norms, conversations about race - we just had a box of issues that we wanted to subvert with our stories, with dance.

~Deobia Oparei

Topics: About Always Australia Avant-Garde Box Company Conversations Dance Did Experience Formed Fourth Gender Had Issues Just Like Norms Our Performance Playing Race Stories Theater Wall Wanted Without Would

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In Australia, there just weren't strong roles for actors of colour. I was often being asked to turn up for commercials with a ghetto blaster on my shoulder. I thought, 'Are we in the '60s?'

~Deobia Oparei

Topics: Actor Asked Australia Being Colour Commercials Ghetto Just Often Roles Shoulder Strong Thought Turn Up Were

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I came from a very poor background. I came from children's homes; I came from a violent family, and against all the odds, I succeeded.

~Deobia Oparei

Topics: Against Background Came Children Family Homes Odds Poor Succeeded Very Violent I Came

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: Unknown

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