I always have bananas with me for energy.

As a child, I always remember our home, which was a flat just on the Barnes side of Hammersmith Bridge in London, buzzing with actors such as Patrick McGee and Peter Bowles. We were a family who were always on the go.

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

Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing around in chilly locations. Theatre is a very different challenge because every night you're striving to keep it fresh, even though you might have been performing the same play for months.

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.

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.

Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.