IN HER short acting career, rising Northern Irish star Thaddea Graham has gone intergalactic, journeyed across mythical kingdoms and fought a killer disguised in a duck costume on a cruise ship. But the most extraordinary story is her own.
The 25-year-old has already starred in two big-budget Netflix shows and is filming the new series of its wildly popular drama Sex Education, as well as appearing in Doctor Who and Us for the BBC. All this packed into just five years since she graduated from drama school.
Fittingly, one of her first memories is of a film crew. She remembers as a toddler being in her high chair looking at a team behind the camera. The reason they were there? “I was one of the first international adoptees from China to Ireland. The BBC did a special.”
Born in China, Graham was left in the entrance to a building by her birth parents when she was three days old. “I never like to use the word abandoned; I don’t think I was abandoned. The choice to leave your child is a massive one, and I feel my birth parents left me in a place I would be found. And somebody did.”
She was taken to a police station, and during health checks they estimated her age. “My birthday is a good, calculated guess, but it’s still a guess,” she says.
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