Share 1932: I grew up a very shy child – I’m about two here – who started informal acting classes at six in Montreal, which taught me about speaking lines. That led to local radio work, and I’ve not stopped since. My father Joseph was a clothing manufacturer who was not pleased by my theatrical stuff and wanted me to be a businessman, but my mother Anne taught elocution and wanted to be an actress 1947: Many of my teenage summers were spent by a lake in the Laurentian Mountains near Montreal. I studied economics at university, but was a terrible student as I was constantly acting in plays. My first proper job was as understudy to Christopher Plummer in Henry VI. When he got ill one day I blundered my way through – I’d had no rehearsal time