Hayley Atwell

I am often lost in my own world, with a frown on my face.

I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.

My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky.

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.