I Have Been Acting For 32 Years

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'd Been Gearing Up To Working In Theatre Since Coming Out Of Drama School, But It Was An Exciting Time For Tv Drama - It Was The Birth Of Channel 4, And Brookside Was Very Cutting-edge At The Time.

Running Gave Me A Focus To Start Looking After Myself, To Eat Properly, And Focus On Building Up My Strength.

Whatever I'm Doing, I Try To Give It Everything.

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.