Olivia Colman: When were you happiest?

When were you happiest?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Olivia Colman said elsewhere, not written here

When my husband and I first said we loved each other, in our student flat in Cambridge.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 May 2013 source ↗

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Jerry Lewis American comedian, actor and filmmaker

In 1926 and in the maternity room.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2011 source ↗

Alan Cumming Scottish actor, producer, director, writer and presenter

A couple of summers ago, walking through a forest illuminated by fireflies, with my man and our dogs.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 August 2009 source ↗

Eve Ensler American playwright, performer, feminist, and activist

In my 60s. So many things that tortured me when I was younger have fallen away. Writing The Apology, the letter I wrote in my father’s voice, apologising for abusing me, has freed me from the last vestiges of anger, confusion, rancour and hate. It released me from a frame that had determined my life.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 June 2019 source ↗

Paul Smith English fashion designer