In brief…

My dream holiday is… A sleep-in until 10am with no one going hungry as a result, a bit of sun and a massage. My signature dish is… I have to say I am not doing my share of the cooking at the moment, but I don’t think you can go past a lamb roast. It’s my favourite dish in the world. The song that makes me want to dance is… A song my son likes to dance to – Happy by Pharrell Williams. In my handbag I always carry… Way too much. I always have my phone; at least one Hot Wheels car; crayons or highlighter pens because you never know when you are going to have to distract with drawing, and wipes, always wipes. On weekends I love to… Not plan anything. I like to spend as much time with Archie as I can so I try not to have commitments. Sometimes Archie and I will just have a pyjama morning, chilling out. The scenes I am most fond of in Offspring are… There are two. The first is from the end of series one when Eddie Perfect [who plays Mick] sings “Your sister’s a six and you’re a perfect 10”. To me that scene highlighted the chaos, humour and wrongness of the show that I love. The other one that jumps out for me is a heartfelt one from the end of series four. Patrick has just died and Billie took Nina to a hotel to look after her. Nina was worried she wouldn’t be able to love the baby because she was in too much grief and Billie says: “If you can’t, I will love your baby until you are able to.” My own family is… An incredibly close extended family, so I totally get the Proudmans. It’s noisy and chaotic. I don’t have a sister but I have been given these amazing sister relationships to play out in my work – with Asher and with Justine Clark in Tangle, so I have done pretty well.