I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.

Film has always been hard for me, I'm basically a stage actress. I never felt comfortable in front of the camera.

Part of me says that no life will work if I can't make this one right.

I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.

My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.

Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.