One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

When I was 22, I thought I couldn't wear heels because of my height.

I've never been desperate to please my father.

Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say, 'You know what: my dad's a really, really famous theatre director,' because nobody has any idea.

As a child I loved ghost stories.

One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

You don't get roles like leading character in 'Christine' very often because people don't really like women on film to be unlikable. I think Christine is lovable, but I don't think she's likable. I think there's a fundamental difference. For me, those are the richest ones. Men have had a career of doing those kind of things.