Joanna Page

“I actually got around to applying to the Open University. And then the script came in for 'Gavin & Stacey,' and it was the only thing I'd read in absolutely ages that I loved and I thought if I don't get the part that's it - I'll finish it.”

“I would phone my parents every single night, crying: 'I hate it!' And they were not nice to me in RADA, it was horrible, actually.”

“I am just a jobbing actress, I don't win awards.”

“My relationship with my parents hasn't changed much as I've grown older. I'm more independent, but still very close to them.”

“Some people assume that I'm a stand-up comedian - I couldn't think of anything worse - and then they ask 'would you like to do something like a costume drama?'”

“If 'Gavin And Stacey' helps me to get more jobs more easily that would be great but as long as Mum and Dad, Nan and Auntie Edna are happy with it all, then I will be too. Because that's what matters at the end of the day, isn't it?”

“I worked in BHS, but I was only there for a couple of weeks before I got fired because I needed the Saturday off to go to drama club. I was useless - I was so bored. There was nothing to do, so I'd go and do a circuit of the store, throwing jumpers on the floor, then go and pick them up.”

“I get grumpy if I am tired, stressed or hungry.”

“I'm obsessed with Agatha Christie, my favourite film is 'Death On the Nile.'”

“I don't like lots of objects.”

“I can't bear doing karaoke.”

“I want to go in, do my job and get home again.”

“Even now I struggle to use my laptop for anything other than ordering toys for the kids.”

“I eat lots of fruit and veg, and I have toyed with being a vegetarian many times, but I like meat and I think I need the iron.”

“I love Monopoly, Connect 4 and Cluedo.”

“I love it that the Welsh moment was with 'Gavin & Stacey!' Now when I go up for jobs, they want me to be Welsh. It's really nice.”

“I was going to do a psychology degree with the Open University. I had all my forms and everything was set up.”

“I had a condition called placenta praevia, which is when the placenta is in the wrong place. Mine was double-sized, too low down and growing over my cervix.”

“My dad, Nigel, was a mechanic, and Mum, Susan, worked in a bank.”

“There was a time when I thought I was never going to get out of a corset. I wondered when I would get the chance to play a modern girl in a pair of jeans. Now people know me so much from 'Gavin & Stacey,' playing precisely that part.”