Any time I’m in rehearsals.
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Philippa Dunne
b. 1982
Born in Dublin, Philippa Dunne, 44, trained at the Gaiety School of Acting and co-founded a comedy group called Diet of Worms. Her TV work includes Derry Girls and This Is Going to Hurt. Since 2016, she has played Anne Flynn in the BBC sitcom Motherland and its spin-off, Amandaland, now in its second series; her performance won her a Bafta nomination this year. She is married with a daughter and lives in London.
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I’ve a phobia of statues. It does go back to childhood. My parents brought me to look at a French church late at night. Since then I can’t deal with them.
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A wedding ring.
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Funny Irish woman.
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Becoming invisible.
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An actor. I watched a lot of TV because we lived in the countryside and the weather was so bad.
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Someone once saw me in a play and said that I was disgusting.
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My mother, because when I’m stressed, I can be really horrible to her.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 June 2026 source ↗
I started my career not getting jobs, but then you learn that 95% of this job is not getting jobs, and you just have to make peace with it.
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If I needed less sleep.
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You are your own greatest asset.
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