As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldnt get any roles other than as somebody dark.

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.

When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.

So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.

My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.