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

I was obsessed with football when I was growing up.

As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath.

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.

Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.

My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality.