Karen Gillan Overview

Karen Sheila Gillan was born an only child in Inverness, Scotland to recording artist/singer John Gillan and his wife Marie. Her father’s music career inspired her to take up piano at the age of seven, and this eventually ignited another passion: acting. While enrolled at the local Charleston Academy, she performed in many theater productions and joined several youth theater groups. At 16, the beautiful redhead moved to Edinburgh and took an acting course at Telford College before moving to... See All