Rebecca Grimes: 'My life can be frustrating, challenging, soul-destroying, but never boring'

"I’m not done taking forks in the road. There will always options and sliding doors. And I kind of want to try them all out."

Fair City actor Rebecca Grimes at RTÉ's new season launch in 2021.

I grew up in the countryside in north county Dublin. It was very rural, very remote. One of my earliest pastimes was — I used to sit at the bottom of our driveway — I’d drag a little plastic chair down — and my notebook. Me and my best friend would write down the car regs for entertainment. I tell people that and they’re like; ‘Wow, were you like pretending that you were in surveillance? Or a detective game?’ No, no, we literally just wrote them down. And it was so quiet where we lived, you could hear a car coming like from miles away.

I’ve one sister and two brothers. I’m the youngest of four. There’s five years between us all so there’s quite a big gap between us. My oldest friend is the same age as me and we grew up together so we would have been more like sisters.