I'm hungry for a cold and mean character - I'd love it if someone thought I could play gritty. I want to play a baddie, someone really scary.

I do so many things. Like when I was younger, if I drove past a house that I didn't want to live in, I'd hold my breath. Driving around somewhere like Slough I'd go blue in the face.

And it's as you get older that you realize that the things that make you strange are the things that make you who you are. And that's a lovely place to get to.

I don't know if I'm so righteous.

I love when people become obsessed with Downton.

I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.

I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too.