If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.

I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been very lucky playing major roles in 'An Ideal Husband', 'Arcadia' and 'The Memory of Water'.

I tend to opt for relaxed family holidays when I can.

Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.

I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.

The big thing that Moneypenny changed was the amount of charity work that I was able to be involved with.

I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.