Michelle Gomez says she couldn’t find her voice on US TV – until The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Picture: Netflix)

Michelle Gomez is undeniably one of the most supremely talented UK exports in recent years, now scaring the living daylights out of teens across the world on Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.

Here, she arguably found her niche and ran with it after horrifying and humouring Green Wing fans in equal measure as Sue White, before her unique eccentricity made her a go-to for some of the most truly wonderful characters of the small screen.

However, the 52-year-old is only just finding her feet across the pond.

Gomez currently stars as the devilish Madam Satan in Netflix’s dark reboot of Sabrina, where her signature quirkiness is rife, as she plots against the teenage witch.

But before she joined the cast of one of the streaming giant’s most popular series, which is quite the accolade, Gomez claimed she was rejected by American television because she doesn’t fit the mold.

‘I’ve never been able to come into my own because I don’t look like all the other women in American television,’ the actress explained to Metro.co.uk. ‘I’m not polished and refined. It’s been really hard to find my voice in America on television.’

Michelle stars as the devilish Madam Satan in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Picture: Netflix)

Regardless, she now gets to play on a stage where it doesn’t matter.

‘On Sabrina, it’s a virtue I don’t look like those women,’ she told us. ‘I haven’t had a lot of work done, I’m not the perfect size, I’m weird and goofy looking.

‘My face has not worked for me in America until recently, it’s like I finally found my own. I finally found my body and I finally found my voice, but Jesus Christ almighty it’s taken me time – I’m not kidding.’

‘I just didn’t fit in and now I feel it doesn’t matter what I look like,’ she continued. ‘That was [showrunner] Roberto’s biggest gift to me, to play in that arena and it’s a bigger stage but I don’t have to show-horn myself into the American ideal.’

Madam Satan surely had Gomez’s name written all over it – she’s a beautifully strange creature, a natural next step from Doctor Who’s Misty. So it’s no wonder Gomez was so adamant the part of the Devil’s confident would be hers for the taking.

‘As far I was concerned I was like, “This is my role, how do I get it? How do I earn the right to play her?” Gomez enthused. ‘And the same with Sue White. There’s a common denominator with a character like Sue White or Missy or Madam Satan – each showrunner, like Stephen Moffat with Missy, they get me so they write to my strengths and I get to join the dots.

‘There’s definitely an understanding with my bosses and that’s when something really magical can happen.’

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina digs so much deeper in part two (Picture: Netflix)

Netflix’s Chilling Adventures returns for the second half of season one, almost six months after we met Madam Satan, Sabrina and her aunts Hilda and Zelda Spellman. If the first 12 episodes were an introduction, the next batch is where the fun really gets going.

For a start, the stakes are higher: Madam Satan has convinced Sabrina to sign the book of the Dark Lord and now she has a new goal – to kill.

‘We get to go a little deeper with each character so there’s bigger brush strokes,’ said Gomez. ‘Finding out what motivates the character Madam Satan, and why she’s in that world and what she’s there to do.

‘The show starts to get a bit more real in a way. The investment that the audience will have brought to it as well, because the audience has invested in each character more there’s more to lose for everyone really, which I think makes it more compelling.’

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The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina season one part two is available to stream on Netflix now.

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