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When I first started, as long as you were a bit brown, you could play any kind of ethnic anything. Now it's much more localised and specific. I feel like a wise old woman looking back on the evolution of how much more sophisticated audiences are.

I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

I'd really love to play a real-life country and western singer.

I used to play a lot of foreign women in my youth because I was prettier then. I would go for interviews, and directors would look at these sultry, exotic looks, hear this clipped accent and think the two don't go together. So they would give me a foreign accent.

Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.

I do fairly represent Middle Eastern women.

I love playing characters with different accents. It's a lot of fun.

I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.

I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.