Orla Brady

I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.

I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.

Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

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

All artists have insecurity.