Kate Isitt trained at the Arts Educational School, ?which involved a rigorous three years? method training. I never intended to be a comedy actress. I thought I would get stereotyped as a classic stage actress.? Then came three series of Simon Nye?s award-winning sitcom IS IT LEGAL? in which she played the glamorous but prickly secretary Alison: ?I was incredibly lucky that that put me on the map as a comedy actress.?