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24 If Olivia Grant wasn’t so likeable, she’d be enviable. Regarded as one of the most versatile and talented actresses of her generation, she’s also been signed by the Storm model agency and is a regular face in many of the world’s most glamorous fashion and lifestyle magazines. Some of which, she’s just confided, she writes for as well. But before it looks as if she’s going to be one of those annoyingly talented polymaths, there’s a simple explanation as to why the Oxford-educated English graduate moonlights as a columnist for InStyle et al. “My journalism originally came about from wanting to thank people – designers or others who had helped me – and whether it’s travel or fashion, I find it a way of talking about interesting experiences that I’m fortunate enough to have had.” In that self-deprecating statement you have the essence of Olivia Grant. Rather than signing up to the self-aggrandising “celeb” code of journalism where every ghost-written word is an empty piece of propaganda, her intent is to act as a conduit to thank those who’ve aided her in what’s proving to be a remarkable career. It’s hard to think of many others who would be so willing to subsume their egos, but then Grant isn’t like her peers. In demand on both sides of the Atlantic, she has managed to nevertheless remain modest in a business which tends to see its stars become anything but. We meet in a Kensal Green photography studio, where Grant is being shot for this magazine. A complete pro, she arrives sans entourage, and, when we break for a chat, she’s a warm and articulate interviewee, despite having been at the studio for hours. She has just appeared in the first episode of the new series of the Granted an audience ShE’S An OxfORd GRAduAtE, OpERA SInGER, BAllEt dAncER, MOdEl, cOluMnISt And ActRESS – And thOROuGhly nIcE tO BOOt. WAtch Out hOllyWOOd, hERE cOMES OlIvIA GRAnt, SAyS AlExAndER lARMAn
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