Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.

I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.

I'm a big fan of Tom Stoppard's work, and have been since I was in school where I studied him.

I really like being thrown into the works. Many actors, I have found, have this as a common trait. We had to, as children, adapt to various situations with either a military family or things like that.

Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.

Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.

I remember vividly one distinct memory of arriving in Hong Kong and being the only blonde haired girl in this sea of international students, and thinking, 'Oh, my God. There's no hiding here.