Portrait of the artist: Phil Daniels, actor

'Doing EastEnders wasn't exactly suffering for my art, but my soul's not in TV. We all have to live, don't we?'What got you started?A lady called Anna Scher. She used to go around the London schools in the holidays, doing theatre workshops. My friend Paul's sister was going, so we turned up one day when I was about 13. There were some nice-looking girls there, so we carried on going.What was your big breakthrough?Doing a play called Class Enemy at the Royal Court when I was about 16. It was abo...

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