You feel you can pretend to be young until you're 50, but after that, what happens and how do you approach it?

I'll cry anywhere because I can do it quite subtly. Walking, that's a good time to have a cry.

Stresses in a marriage and in family life, sometimes they're prompted by whatever is going on in the wider world as well as what's going on behind your door.

Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men.

I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.

Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my neighbours.

I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture.