Zawe Ashton has been acting since she was six. She has played many different roles, from cute little girl to assassin with attitude , Oscar Wilde s Salome to St Trinian s schoolgirl by way of Fresh Meat s Vod.

To stay sane, an actress must tread a high-wire between life and art, keep sight of where a character ends and the real person begins. So she doesn t lose herself completely.

In Character Breakdown, Zawe scrolls through a version of her life. Or is it a version of her art? Or something in between. In it, she encounters glamour, horror, absurdity and questions like: is a life spent more on performance than reality any life at all?