I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.

I have endless playlists on my iPod so will throw on, say, Bruce Springsteen or The Smiths, depending on what kind of day I'm going to have.

Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful - those stories, they're just incredible.

When you get a bit older and you realise that no one knows what they're doing, no one's perfect and it's fine.

I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.

You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get.

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