Samantha Bond

I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.

Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

I tend to opt for relaxed family holidays when I can.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

I'm lucky that I have whatever I had that makes me have a successful career, if you will.

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