On 17 January 2024, I became a citizen of the United States of America - I now have dual citizenship. I attended my interview where I was given a civics test, asked to read and write in English and asked some questions about my employment and travel history. The...

The actors’ strike finally ended on 9 November 2023 and was ratified by 78% of the membership on 5 December 2023. With the strike over, there was a small, flurry of television auditions at the end of the year – all saying, “memorization not required”, as SAG-AFTRA had...

The US actors' strike continued throughout October with no resolution but I still managed to get one or two auditions a week for independent features, short films, voice overs and commercials. At the end of October, I was on hold for a commercial. I waited to hear....

I was still in the UK until 23 August, waiting on an availability check for a major TV project shooting in October but there was no follow up so, having been in the UK for three months, I decided it was time to head back to LA. The writers and actors were still...

June and July were spent back in the UK. The Writers’ Guild of America continued their strike from May into June and July so work was limited in Los Angeles and I headed back to London to audition for projects in the UK and Europe. On 14 July, the US actors’ union,...

Back in January, I worked on a series for Amazon - customer reviews read by thespians. In April, my video was released on the Amazon channel on YouTube. The first video they had put up back in February, had had two million views so I am hoping for big things. The...

If you’ve read January’s blog, you’ll know that I’ve been struggling with the industry and the way it operates in Los Angeles. By the end of February, I was in a place where I wanted to quit all together so I decided the better option would be to take control. I...

Over the last ten years or so, working in both LA and the UK, I’ve noticed there is a stark difference in the way actors are treated in each place. Every project varies, of course, but the huge supply of actors in LA appears to result in little value being placed on...

The film I shot in October was released on 2 December on the Lifetime Movie Network in the US. Titled, It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Murder, it’s a fun, festive, Christmas thriller so take a look and see if you think my character, Mrs Hobart, might have done the...

To me, the absolute joy of cinema is when it encompasses visual spectacle with brilliant storytelling. RRR is an epic film that somehow combines virtually all the themes found in movies in just the one film: overcoming the monster, the quest, buddy love, voyage and...