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'Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to be involved in.

I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.

You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

'Othello' was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied the play for my English GCSE. Desdemona is the part that everyone wants, but Iago's wife Emilia is the one I've always been drawn to.

One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.

If I ever play Hamlet, it'll be in a dress!

Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.

Maybe they say they do but I don't think many actors really enjoy trying to do a Shakespearean play.

I've played Hamlet and Coriolanus, Orlando in 'As You like It' and Ariel in 'Tempest,' among others.