Zoe's Progress ; Nakedly Ambitious and Precociously Talented, Zoe Tapper Stole the Show in Stage Beauty, and Is Sashaying Back On to the Screen As Hogarth's Harlot. What a Strategic Starlet, Says Marianne Macdonald

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Sienna Miller and Keira Knightley may be the ones being followed by paparazzi in Hollywood, but 26-year-old Zoe Tapper beat them both to the part of Diana Shaw, a young actress struggling to carve out a career in the shadow of her late stage-legend mother, in this year's These Foolish Things. The film, about a Thirties theatre company, co- starred Lauren Bacall and Anjelica Huston, and down-to-earth Zoe has fond memories of working with Bacall. 'She was lovely.

She talked so fondly about Bogey, as she called him, absolutely with a glint in her eye,' she says.

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Zoe's Progress ; Nakedly Ambitious and Precociously Talented, Zoe Tapper Stole the Show in Stage Beauty, and Is Sashaying Back On to the Screen As Hogarth's Harlot. What a Strategic Starlet, Says Marianne Macdonald

'She's remarkably frank. She told me about her children. I remember her advising me to have another life: don't make acting everything. She told me: "A career won't keep you warm in bed at night." ' Zoe smiles and picks up her apple juice.

In the film, Diana is so desperate for fame, she troops determinedly from audition to audition (no convenient real...

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