Cristin Milioti reveals working at an amusement park was one of her worst jobs

She told Empire magazine: "I've had many bad jobs.

"The chocolate company Hershey has an amusement park [Hersheypark] in Pennsylvania and I worked there for five months when I was 18, singing and dancing in a show about chocolate.

"I really, really hated it."

Cristin also revealed the worst things she's eaten - a sip from a "bottle of Baileys that had gone bad" - and her least favourite smell in the world.

She added: "The smell of someone, or many people, having peed in the subway and it's a heatwave day. That makes my skeleton want to escape my body."

Cristin has forged a career in the arts, but her first role in a school play didn't hint at the success to come.

She recalled: "I want to say I was one of the hens in a retelling of The Little Red Hen.

"I was not the main hen. I was a supporting hen. Actually, I think everyone got to be a hen."

The Penguin star wanted to pursue a career in Hollywood from a young age, and once met John Waters as a child when she told him about her dreams.

Asked about what posters she had on her wall, she said: "Not a poster, but what I did have on my wall was a framed photo of John Waters. "My dad took me to meet at a video stood in Philadelphia. I loved his films.

"I was WAY too young to be watching them - I think I was nine. I told him what an enormous fan I was and that I wanted to be a director.

"He signed a headshot and wrote, 'To the future.' I had it hanging on my wall for years. It's not in my house of my parents' house and I would do anything to have it back."