O'Reilly has a lovely Irish accent to go with her Irish name. She was born in Dublin. Her family moved to Adelaide when she was 10, but the Dublin years shaped her interest in performing.

"In Ireland, literature, theatre and music are palpable everywhere. It's part of the everyday. We didn't have a television. Music was huge. Everybody had a party piece so you would always be doing something.

"We used to have shows on the street. Everybody on the street plays together and every summer there would be a performance. We'd put sheets on the line as the backdrop, somebody would choreograph a dance, somebody would sing a song and then you'd perform little skits."

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