Television is what we're all very attracted to because that's where the best writing and the best characters are.

I'm not getting younger, so there's a commitment to the cause that one has to make

As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.

Television is what we're all very attracted to because that's where the best writing and the best characters are.

I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!

People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and repeating it, cleverly in the first couple of sentences so the name sticks to begin with.

And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume!