Dania Ramirez: 'I'm meant to be a star'

Dania Ramirez has revealed that she always knew she wanted to be a "star".

The actress has said that as a child she always had a "big imagination" and hasn't looked back since taking her first acting class as a teenager.

She told Maxim: "When I think back on my life, I was an artist. I grew up in the Dominican Republic, and nobody in my family does this for a living. I didn’t even have TV growing up, but I always had a big imagination. I always felt like I was meant to be a star.

"I didn’t even know what that meant, though, to be honest. When I was 15, I was living in New Jersey, and someone came in and asked me if I wanted to model. That was my introduction to the entertainment business. I quickly took an acting class. My acting teacher said that I had raw talent, and that I should do it for a living, and I just started taking acting classes then and I haven’t stopped since."

Ramirez can currently be seen in the seventh season of Entourage on HBO.