Coffee Films contributors; Liz Green

Liz Green
Actor
Alter ego; actress

Liz was born in London, to be immediately disadvantaged as the younger sister of the evil Sarah Green. The family moved to Kent at the end of the 80's and Liz immediately became interested in theatre, acting with several local youth companies from the age of 9 until her late teens, often with her sister;

"I was cast as Blousey to Sarah's Tallulah in a production of Bugsy Malone. We were so competitive with each other all the way through until one day I was in make up, and Sarah walked in, we just looked at each other across the room then kind of, attacked each other; we were like that all the time; I think it might even be our way of showing affection for each other."

She appeared briefly in a film she can't remember aged 10, auditioned to play Cosette in the West End run of Les Miserables aged 11; "...shitting myself...", sang in the child chorus of a professional production in Canterbury's Marlowe theatre aged 13, and spent 4 weeks in performance in London with the Stagecoach youth company, performing Guys and Dolls.

She has 'enjoyed' the typically teenage Saturday jobs at MacDonald's; "...the customers are bastards...", Sainsbury's; "...they all called me eco-warrior...", and a local club; "...the manager was scary, he'd just, go off on a tangent...", and one of those little shops that blatantly sell bongs, Rizla, and tie-die clothes with tassles on to the smoking community of North Kent: that was alright, apparently, as they bravely let her play her choice in music; Slipknot, Tool, Incubus, Tori Amos, Tricky, Lauryn Hill, Ben Fold's 5, and Beenie Man (but only Zim Zimmer as that's the only one she's heard) have all supplied the less than comforting (in fact the words jarring and disturbing spring to mind) soundtrack for any weekend Rizla shoppers.

She has completed a performing arts course at college, having found it a good transition from her former all girls comprehensive;

"I had some good times but there were only two grungers in a school full of rough chavs; me and my friend Marie, both about 5 foot tall!"

and spent time in the no man's land of the gap year; one of far too many wanting to study acting at one of the big stage schools in the UK. After a disappointing search in 2000 she secured a place at Rose Bruford near London where she graduated from recently, Liz is currently enjoying the chaotic ups and downs of developing a professional acting career and doing bumming around ex-student stuff like travelling in Australia.

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