It's very hard to dramatise something factual and not make it look overdone, but also not to make it look so under-dramatised that it's dull.

I love to travel with my family or my two best friends because I completely trust them. I forced my two best friends into learning to scuba dive with me in Sri Lanka - it was amazing but also hideous because we were learning in very difficult seas.

I am extremely content in my life - sometimes to the point where I really should find something to moan about!

Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to have children, but I am not averse to it either.

I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller.

I do believe in an afterlife. I try to be at one with people and try to love life as much as I can.