I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William,' which is due to transmit on BBC One at Christmas.

I was doing a show at the National Youth Theatre, playing an old man. Before that I had played fat clowns and I thought, 'If I want to have the career I would like, I am going to have to lose weight.' I was just starting drama school, and found I was moving around a lot. I also started to eat sensibly. The weight just dropped off.

due to her fluctuating filming schedule.

It is not just family that must transmit values, but school also.

A Charlie Brown Christmas.

I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley.