I've always loved animation and animated films.

A lot of the times when I've auditioned for parts in America, the answer is, 'Sorry, we need a bigger name.'

I am prone to get carried away thinking about creative projects.

I love watching Jeff Bridges act. He's brilliant.

I perceive and relate to the world through where I grew up; that's part of me. It's what I judge everything else against.

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality. The more fantastical characters, or fantastical worlds that they inhabit are really fun and allow you, in some ways, to tell stories and reveal things about our lives that would be harder to take, in a more realistic setting.

Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.