I Have Sleepless Nights Before Press Days.

I Was A Complete Tomboy. I Loved Wandering Out In Storms Or Walking On The Beaches In The Dark. It Was A Very Free Upbringing, And I'm Grateful To My Parents For That.

It Always Interests Me How Obsessed People Are About Age.

I'm Becoming More Squeamish. I Didn't Use To Be - Nine Years Of 'silent Witness' Prepared Me For Most Things One Will Have The Misfortune To See In Life. Before, I'd Be Wading Up To My Neck In Gore, But Now I Tend To Look Away.

I Could Suddenly See The Pressures All Around; These Endless Magazines And Cheap Reality Tv Programmes Poking At Women, Humiliating Us For Every Flaw. It Makes Me So Angry. I Really Wonder What It Is We Are Doing To Ourselves, Because I Do Think Women Can Be The Worst Ones For Picking Each Other Apart.

But I Didn't Really Enjoy My Secondary Education That Much, Probably Because I Am A Very Physical Person And Don't Enjoy Sitting At A Desk All Day. I Just Dragged Myself Through Gcse And A Levels, So It Suited Me Very Much To Go On To Drama School, Which Was Very Active.