Joanne Froggatt

“A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.”

“People recognise me when I'm holiday on the beach.”

“I do Facebook, but I only have my friends and family on it, and they always laugh at me for how little I post. I don't know how to upload photos, so I never add pictures.”

“I love heels! I especially like heels by Nicholas Kirkwood, Jimmy Choo and Moschino.”

“As I get older, my skin shows more of how I am feeling, like a mirror. If I am stressed, or not getting enough sleep, I see it in my face right away.”

“I really enjoy dressing up. I'm pretty much a girlie girl.”

“My dad had a flock of sheep, which he used to milk, and then my mum used to make cheese and yogurt out of the sheep's milk and sell it. It was kind of an unusual upbringing, really.”

“Ill-fitted T-shirts stretched over a gut are my pet hate. And if the colour's faded - ugh.”

“It's very kind of 'Wuthering Heights' where my parents' house is, moors and deserted. It's very wild and mystic.”

“If you can do something great in 60 seconds, you can do anything, really.”

“I think I can be relatively attractive when I dress up, but I'm not Julia Roberts or Catherine Zeta Jones.”

“I grew up on a farm - it was a lovely life; we'd make tree houses all day - and my parents worked from home.”

“The condition of my skin changes often, depending on the season or if I'm traveling a lot.”

“My agent asked if I fancied Robin Hood and I thought: 'Yeah, why not?' I hadn't watched it, to be honest, but I'd seen bits and knew it was really popular Saturday family viewing with heaps of action. I thought it would be great fun. I was up for a good old play-fighting and the scripts were terrifically exciting.”

“I always play girls who are quite traumatised, or a plain girl, but I'm happy with that.”

“'Coronation Street' was my first job, Zoe was a controversial character, and I wasn't used to everyone looking at me.”