Hattie Morahan

What's exciting about theatre is observing human behaviour. You're constantly making judgments about body language, the physical, the emotional, the intellectual.

Cate Blanchett and Eileen Atkins are definitely among my top five actresses whose work I aspire to.

Because I didn't go to drama school, I didn't start in the business with any toolbox apart from enthusiasm and instinct. I'd throw everything at a part and sometimes realise that I had hit my limits.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

As the mother of a grown son with a traumatic brain injury, I couldn't be more excited about the prospect of finding out how to repair even a small part of the damage that changed his life.

It's just certain people that I get the giggles with.