With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.

I want to come across as a positive person.

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.

I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.

My father was absent and he was a hero to me.