My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My father is such an amazing, beautiful actor. He's incredible, and he helps me a lot.
My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.
When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a young lad watching films, my eyes were on them - watching 'On the Waterfront,' my eyes are on Rod Steiger and Karl Malden, not on Brando.
My dad was a keen actor when he was young; my auntie is heavily involved in amateur dramatics back in Northern Ireland, and my great aunt was a woman called Greer Garson.
I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.
My father was a writer and an acting teacher.
My father has acted in over 700 films. My mother acted in one film, 'Kismat with Mithun Chakraborty,' in which my father also had a role. My father fell in love with her and would drive her around in his sports car, and they subsequently got married. My mom is the most beautiful woman and I think she has taken some serum to look young all her life.
My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.
My father started out as a riveter, but he had the soul of an artist. He worshiped Shakespeare and had aspirations to be an actor. He claimed that from the first day he laid eyes on me, I was going to be this great dramatic actress.