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“If I were a Shakespearean hero, my tragic flaw would be ambition,” says Ambika Mod, the star of the BBC’s This Is Going To Hurt and the Netflix hit One Day. Mod, who grew up in Hertfordshire, had her first professional job on the BBC comedy The Mash Report in 2019. “I look back at that version of myself and I don’t know how she did it,” she says. “I was gigging, writing at the weekend and working to raise money to go to the Edinburgh Fringe. I was so hungry and scrappy. Just thinking about it n