Unlike most of Hollywood, Ariella Glaser didn’t grow up dreaming of becoming an actor. She wanted to be an astronaut, but a propensity for severe motion sickness brought her crashing back down to earth. “It’s not very compatible with an astronaut lifestyle,” the 19-year-old says with a grin from her new apartment at the University of Edinburgh, where she’s about to start her sophomore year.
Glaser, who was born and raised in London, has been acting in school plays since the age of four, when she starred as Dorothy in a nursery-school production of The Wizard of Oz. Being onstage felt natural to Glaser. “I’ve always been quite outgoing,” she says. “I’ve liked talking at people and forcing people to watch me onstage.”
