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I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years.

After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.

At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.

I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.

Frankly, if people aren't going to cast me because I'm queer, than I don't want to work with them.

There are plenty of lesbians in Hollywood, but they're not out. And that's their choice, but I can't do that, it's too important to me.

I've got quite a big gay following. I played a lesbian prostitute in the TV series 'Band Of Gold' but I think my following really grew when I played one in the film 'Imagine Me & You,' with Piper Perabo.

I get told a lot that I'm kind of carving my own path. That there are not many actors who are out and are able to play straight and gay, and everyone's OK with it.

I'm never going to be cast as a 'Bond' girl. I mean, I could do it and I would love it. But I don't ooze sexuality.

I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.