It always interests me how obsessed people are about age.

If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.

I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time.

I think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private.

I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away.

Whatever I'm doing, I try to give it everything.

No, I always wanted to be an actress.