Game of Thrones star Liam Cunningham: 'Africa was the reason I became an actor'

"I came back from Africa at 25," he said in an interview with Post Magazine some 30 years later."Having been with 16 000 elephants, looking after the national park, which is the size of Belgium - when you go back to driving a yellow van around Dublin, it just doesn't have the same glamour. I was kind of bored after the expanse of Zimbabwe and was looking for a distraction. I saw an ad in the back of a newspaper for an acting school.

Liam recently visited the continent with humanitarian organisation World Vision, travelling to refugee camps in Uganda, and has worked on several projects shot in South Africa, including

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