Special K

Blades Of Glory gets it kind of right about the figure-skating world – no joke!” laughs Kaitlyn Dever from her home in LA. She would know. As the daughter of former professional skaters, Tim and Kathy (her dad competed in the 1988 US Figure Skating Championships), Dever has grown up in a house of performers. So it wasn’t such a leap from playing with dolls when, as a kid, she decided she wanted to be an actor. Having cut her teeth performing in adverts as a nipper, Dever convinced her mum to move with her from their Phoenix family home to LA on a trial basis to see if show business would work out. Almost immediately, she got a gig on a movie (Chrissa Stands Strong) and never looked back.