I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller.

I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller.

I'd hate to be a sex symbol. Because you're always having to live up to an image. I haven't got time to sit around doing my nails.

I do believe in an afterlife. I try to be at one with people and try to love life as much as I can.

I love to travel with my family or my two best friends because I completely trust them. I forced my two best friends into learning to scuba dive with me in Sri Lanka - it was amazing but also hideous because we were learning in very difficult seas.

I don't get inoculations or take anti-malaria tablets when I go abroad, I take the homeopathic alternative, called 'nosodes', and I'm the only one who never goes down with anything.

I am extremely content in my life - sometimes to the point where I really should find something to moan about!