User:AliaETorrie

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 * birth_date = January 15, 1982
 * birth_place = Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
 * birth_name = Alia Elizabeth Torrie
 * occupation = Actor
 * years_active = 2009 – present
 * partner = John "Johnno" James Clark (2009 – present)

Alia is a 28 year old Scottish actress based in and around the Greater Glasgow area. She is experienced mostly in theatre as she would say it is her "First Love!". Over the years she has taken part in many theatre productions, and has began to venture on to short student, Independant /festival films.

Alia was Born 15th January 1982 near Meadowbank Stadium, Lieth, Edinburgh "The City Of The Rock", Daughter of Malcolm Torrie (Scottish) a BBC Scotland Audio Engineer/Producer and Lottie Torrie (Sierra Leonean) Administrator for Local Council. she is the eldest of two children, younger brother Andrew, a fitness enthusiast. A wife and Mother of one.

In the early years it was apparent that she was creative, first starting out as a musician, a 6 year old with her first guitar, then to a watercolour - oil painter/ artist in her early teens (studying a number of short courses at Glasgow School Of Art),till finally I was captured by a much older love of acting (one i believe really started at the age of 7), finally in my mid 20's when she decided that this is what she wanted to do, what she always wanted to do she went for it. Even though she often feels she came to it late, she couldn't imagine myself doing anything else with her life, "this is me, its not just a job, its my life and its who I am!". She believe that training is an incredibly important part of being an actor, "you live you learn, and in fact you never stop learning." She Like to seek new knowledge and experiences to better her as an actor and help to further her career. She is currently training in evening courses (Dramaworks) at the RSAMD Glasgow to ensure she is prepared to take on the degree, and also working with a private tutor (David W. W. Johnstone, lab classes) to eliminate "bad habits" learn some more useful ones, widen her perspective and broaden her horizons. "D. W. W Johsntone, being one of the best tutors, has opened my eyes to a new way of thinking and has made me evolve greatly as an Actor, or as he would say - an "Artiste". We dont "Act", we "become"/"believe". We are simply the puppeteer pulling the strings. We leave ourselves behind and become the character, believe in the character... There is no confidence, only "bravery" as confidence can be easily mistaken for false, an act, a mere front." Actors such as Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Juliet Stevenson, Maggie Smith, Tim Robbins, Julliet Binoche, Ralph Fiennes and David Tennant have been an immense and strong influence within her chosen path as an actor, the first being her greatest and strongest, part of what moulded her into the actor you see today. Alia would much rather state, that she is an "actor" rather than an "actress", as the word actress she feels is too glamorous. "Acting is not glamorous nor do I want it to be, that's Hollywood, and I am certainly not Hollywood!" "I am hard working and serious where I need to be, don't get me wrong I have an outlandish and comedic side to me too." She has often been cast in "character" roles due to her comic timing, and her "rubber face", however she has also been cast in more "serious" roles, for her ability to adapt to any given situation and to create a world for that character seeing them in a more realistic light. "So... Here I am, dedicated, my hat in my hand, a gleam in my eye, lets do this, lets get on with it, lets put on a ruddy good performance."