“I didn’t want to be an actor when I was younger,” says Aimee Lou Wood. “I wanted to be a writer, like Emily Brontë.”
Wood grew up just outside of Manchester, England, in the town of Stockport, where she took her first acting class while still in elementary school. It was at her mother’s suggestion—an effort to help her daughter overcome extreme shyness. “When I did funny characters and funny voices,” she says, “it gave me a protective shield.”
