Who Is Naomi Ackie?
Get to Know British Actor Naomi Ackie, Star of the Whitney Houston Biopic
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Naomi has taken on wide-ranging roles in her glamorous Hollywood career so far, but she actually grew up wanting to be a Shakespearean actress rather than a mainstream star. With those hopes cemented in her mind by her mid-teens, she went on to hone her talents at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where her interests expanded.
"I'd always had the idea of film in the back of my mind," Ackie told the Los Angeles Times. "But I think when you're not in America, and every film you see has American actors in it, you just think, 'Oh, that's Hollywood. That's a totally different thing.'"