Neve McIntosh

With some writers, the script looks beautiful on the page, but nobody actually speaks like that.

I started horse-riding when I was a child and still try to go as often as I can.

Thankfully, I have never experienced a miscarriage, but I have friends and family who have, and I've talked to them about their feelings.

I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.