Actress

Those two years at drama school were nutty and weird. I didn't love it at all - I loved my class; I have so many great friends from that time - but I learned less. I just learned more of what I didn't like.

My job is to make people laugh.

Songs with simple lyrics really take off in Irish nightclubs.

Getting a laugh was what I'd been doing with my family and at school since the age of three.

Any child who has lost a parent probably knows every single photograph in existence of that parent.

I love the garishness of the '90s - the giant platform shoes, the sparkly butterfly tops, the chokers.

Northern Irish people tend to have this sharp, dark sense of humour.

While we talk about successes, I think it's also important to talk about all the failures. Like, for every Netflix special, there's things that don't work.

For ethical fashion, I really like Reformation. It's so fashionable - no hemp trousers.

Most of my world is in London, and I feel like this is where I went mad and ended up finding myself.

It's a difficult thing to be in fashion or popular - it's all so fickle.

Put everything into it if you're asking people to part with money for it. That's the way I feel about it.

In America, they like to think, 'Do as many things as you can.' That's what I like about being here. 'You're a polymath! We call you multi-hyphenates!' I like the idea you're allowed work as much as you can.

I went to see Billy Connolly do two hours with no break at the Apollo, with Parkinson's disease, during the winter, and it was one of the most important gigs I have seen in my life.

I can't play the guitar, so the thoughts of playing one onstage at a festival makes me quiver, but I've been blabbering away in front of people since I was a child, so talking for a living isn't the most daunting thing to do.

I had a bad break up at university - you know, when your heart breaks for the very first time, and you think, 'I must leave this island,' as if it had never happened to anyone before. I said 'OK, I'll go to England,' and it was the best decision I ever made.

Please note when you watch a play, you can't pause it and go to the loo or shout into the kitchen for a tea. Learned that the hard way.

Nothing chills out the soul like the comfort of tea and a potato.

My on-set, keep-warm jacket is a Patagonia, and they make sure the people who make their clothes are paid fairly, along with a load of other great stuff and initiatives. They're a business, but they put their money where their mouth is in terms of caring and responsibility.

I love L.A. Some people arrive with big expectations and are inevitably disappointed, but I can audition in the day, which can be gruelling and lonely, but then gig and be creative in the evenings.