Phoebe Fox

I love England. I don't want to move away from the place I grew up in.

My life plan was to get into drama school and become an actor, but it took me three years. I applied while I was still at school in my final year, and I didn't get in anywhere, so I took a job in a comedy club - not doing stand-up comedy, because that's my idea of hell, but in the office - and I went traveling.

My parents are actors as well, so I grew up around that world. It was always a very romantic, mythical world. They did a lot of theater, so to me an actor was getting to come backstage and dressing room mirrors with bulbs around them and trying on people's costumes. It was very exciting to me as a child.

My first filming job was one of the first episodes of 'Black Mirror,' before anyone knew what that was going to be. It was this mad project with some great people behind it - and now it's 'Black Mirror!' It was sort of baptism by fire.

My first play was 'A Month in the Country' at the Chichester Festival Theatre.

A corset is always challenging.

I haven't seen a lot of horror because I'm ridiculously sensitive and I get scared really easily.

The energy that you expend making yourself look frightened and feeling frightened is just as hard as crying and shouting and all the other extremities of emotion.

I mean, I'd love to see 'The Woman in Black' in the Nineties on the rave scene!

I'd love to play a villain! I always end up playing people that are quite goody-two- shoes. I would love to play someone who is a little bit evil. I think that would be really fun.

My dad's an amazing carpenter and he does painting and decorating.

You have to be able to hold up a mirror to your personality at drama school and recognise the flaws. That's hard to do as a 17-year-old. But it's easier to cope with when you're a little bit older.

The period characters I have played have all been these wonderfully forward-thinking women.

I'd be happy just to do theatre work but it can't pay the bills.

I get told I have a 'period' face quite often. Maybe it's the pale skin but I get a lot of pre-Forties posh roles.

I know the fact I've worked continuously since drama school means I fit a stereotype - the ingenue.

Something about the way I look screams 'aristocrat, 1940s.' It's so strange, because I'm not.

I have been very lucky, because I have quite an innocent face and a lot of people are looking for a character who is tough and yet soft and slightly girly. That's why they call me up.

Because we have more women in power now, frankly we are less likely to go to war. It's not in our nature really.

Why is it so unusual to see someone who's not a size eight on screen?