Although every drama school Tallulah Ormsby Gore applied to in Britain turned her down, Lord Harlech's attractive daughter has had the last theatrical laugh.
Former Cheltenham Ladies' College gal Tallulah, 20, has landed the main female role in an off-Broadway version of Shakespeare's Richard III.
Weeks after leaving the Lee Strasberg drama school in New York, Tallulah asked Lynnea Benson, the director of the Frog and Peach Theatre Company in Manhattan, for a part.
"She agreed to audition me and then asked me if I wanted the part of Lady Anne, the wife of Richard III," Tallulah tells me.
Now she is hoping her divorced mother Amanda - the muse of Karl Lagerfeld - and father will come to the opening night next month.
"I am hoping to prove their wayward daughter has found a job at last," she says. "All I ever wanted to do was drama, but all the drama schools turned me down.
"It seems that if you don't fit their boring mould, which will get you a job on a daytime soap, you don't get a place."