Alex Kingston

"It's so important to spend your free time with little people. They grow up before you know it. Childhood is gone in the blink of an eye."

"Given the amount of work and time my mum devoted to my sister, it left me a lot of time to play on my own. I mean, I played with kids in the street all the time, too - I definitely wasn't denied a childhood. But I do wonder whether, in a sense, acting was my way of getting noticed."