A Star is Born.. at an early age

Elizabethan-style frock which she wore to meet the Queen at the 2009 Royal Variety Performance.

There have been face masks, monster heels, a frock made out of Kermit the frog toys, outfits so skimpy you wondered whether there was any fabric at all – and that MTV Awards dress made out of meat.

Safe to say, then, that she had put her shy, high school days behind her.

Yet while superstardom was achieved, she longed to be an actor. Her TV breakthrough in 2015 was a roaring success. She played a killer in American Horror Story: Hotel. Gaga got rave reviews, shocked audiences with a series of sex scenes and won a Golden Globe in the process.

But it was in A Star Is Born that she peeled off the make-up and revealed her true self as she played rags- to- riches waitress Ally opposite Hollywood star Bradley Cooper, 44.

The film, also up for a best picture gong, wowed fans and proved Gaga could hold her own as an actor – and that Cooper could sing. Gaga says: “There’s no award more esteemed than the Oscar in acting and, for music, it is also extremely special.

“Since I was a girl, I admired all of the artists that put in so much hard work and passion into film-making.

“Watching the awards I used to cry with them. It felt like I was with them.”

She wasn’t back then. But she certainly is now.

So watch out for more Gaga tears – of joy – on February 24.

Other girls would enjoy high school but I was obsessed by the theatre LADY GAGA TELLING OF HER DREAM TO BE A STAR