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Sometimes the overwhelming realisation that I will one day die; but mostly that ShortList man from the tube throwing stones at my window.
Hormones – other than that, I sleep like a rock.
Menopausal anxiety.
Nothing – I’ve got some great tablets!
I love clothes and accoutrements, so it would be either a suit or a watch. I love Mark Powell in Soho, and Paul Smith.
The Wimpy in Kingston when I was 16. I’d recently become vegetarian, and there weren’t many veggie burgers in 1988.
It’s hard to beat David Attenborough. Everything he does is quality. I like people who make me proud to be British.
A really careful lobotomy, to switch off bits of my brain.
“I don’t love you.”
I wanted to be a footballer and then a squash player – I was in with a chance because I was very good. But I fell out of love with that by 14 or 15 and joined a youth theatre.
Abigail Breslin, Adjoa Andoh, Aidan Gillen, Angela Griffin, Anna Paquin, Ardal O'Hanlon
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