Biografia

Is a skilled ventriloquist.

She was so impressed with the first season of Black Mirror (2011) that she approached the producers herself and was subsequently offered Martha in Be Right Back (2013).

She was Head Girl of her high school and played rugby until age 18.

Good friends with Emma Thompson and Chris Evans.

She enjoys pranking her co-stars and once filled one's dressing room with hundreds of plastic balls.

Nude scenes can be very liberating. I feel very human. This is me, with all my little imperfections.

My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky.

[on Brideshead: Desejo e Poder (2008)] What attracted me was I loved the vivid characters that had obviously come from a very rich novel and Jeremy Brock and Andrew Davies had put that into the script. The character definitions and the stage directions were very rich and as rich as the dialogue so I felt that there was a hell of a lot of passion behind it. I'm attracted to flawed characters. I think they're really interesting to play. I was really intrigued who this enigmatic Julia was and what was bubbling and going on beneath the surface. So it was probably that.

[on her character in Capitão América: O Primeiro Vingador (2011)] Peggy was in a position where if she was a damsel in distress, she wouldn't be of that position. And when she says, "I know what it's like to have a few doors slammed in my face," I think because she's this attractive woman who's beautifully made up, she had to fight a little bit harder to get where she is to prove that she's capable. And I think that's great because there's a kindred spirit between her and Steve, there's an equality about them and I love that.

I think it will be a balance of creative and commercial choices, going forward. People say critical acclaim and box office success don't go hand in hand and that may be true but I don't really think I'd live much on the salary of a full-time theatre actor. I mean, I could, but I really like going out to dinner...