The siblings of special needs children are quite special. Absolutely accepting and totally loving, from birth, someone who is different mentally, and has a different way of seeing the world, is a wonderful trait. It's a trait I wish there was another way of getting, but there isn't. And it does involve a degree of not having it fantastically easy.

Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people.

I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.

I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.

I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.

I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.