Anna Maxwell Martin
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Anna Maxwell Martin
Anna Maxwell Martin, sometimes credited as Anna Maxwell-Martin, is an English actress who has played Lyra in His Dark Materials at the Royal National Theatre, Esther Summerson in the BBC's 2005 adaptation of Bleak House, and "N" in Channel 4's 2008 adaptation of Poppy Shakespeare...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActress
suffer
I'm rather a practical person. I just get on and focus on what I have to do. I just don't get sleepless or suffer from the jitters.
brightly means shines
For some actors, their star shines brightly and fizzles out. My star doesn't shine that brightly, but it buzzes along. Hopefully, that means it will last longer.
corsets crying people played time
I played crying people in corsets for a long time, but I went into acting to be a character actor.
dressed east front matter outside saturday step time unless
I come from Beverley in East Yorkshire, and no one there would step outside their front door, or even their back door, on a Saturday night - or any other time, for that matter - unless they were dressed to the nines.