A former Warminster School pupil is looking for her next big break after spending the past two years working alongside a double Oscar-winning actor and touring the globe with a famous theatre company.

Ella Cumber, 21, who left the school in 2012 after studying history, English literature and theatre studies at A-level, has worked with Inglourious Basterds star Christoph Waltz and performed with The Globe Theatre Company in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

The actress, who lived in Warminster for four years, was born in Dubai and has an English dad and Filipino mum. She is currently holding down three jobs so she can stay in London.

“It’s not an easy career but it is creatively fulfilling and opens up avenues to other things such as art, music and poetry,” she said.

After graduating from The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2013, she found work in several commercials and fringe theatre before landing the role in Tulip Fever alongside rising star Jack O’Connell and model Cara Delevingne.

The film – a 17th century romance in which an artist (Dane DeHaan) falls for a married young woman (Alicia Vikander) while he’s commissioned to paint her portrait by her husband (Waltz) – is out later this year.

Miss Cumber said: “It was different working on something with big production values. I wasn’t really starstruck by Waltz. He had his kids with him and was really down to earth.”

She then spent four months touring in places such as Shanghai, Moscow, St Petersburg, Singapore, Hong Kong and Beijing while playing Cobweb in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

“It was only a small role but to get paid to travel and see all those places is overwhelming. I’m very grateful and I’d love to work with them again,” she said.