Love Kraft Homestyle Mac and Cheese? Who doesn’t, right? This was seriously one of the funnest jobs ever – directed by John Birkin (a fanastic British director) the premise was that Thomas Jefferson (who allegedly invented mac and cheese) comes back and is...
I was thrilled when I landed the part of Charlotte Lucas in the Grand’s production of Pride and Prejudice. I loved the novel as a teenager, but remember throwing the book across the room when I read that Charlotte was to be married to the odious Mr. Collins. As...
In May 2008 my agent called and said: “You’re not going to believe this. Shaftesbury are looking for an actress who can play an alcoholic from Birmingham.” I said: “If I don’t get this part, shoot me. Just bloody shoot me.” I was...
For my first tv job in Canada, “Murdoch Mysteries” was a doozy! I appeared in the episode “Belly Speaker” as Victorian floozy Emmy Paulk whose alcoholic lover is murdered. Her husband (who has a hook for a hand) is a suspect. Another fine...
Metaphorically speaking, you understand. I’d been going on and on to my husband about “Shaun of the Dead” for ages so finally I went to the video store and rented it. It was a depressing experience. Not, I hasten to add, because it wasn’t a...
