AC: Well, I was married - twice actually. But I'm divorced now and single, and I do have two children. My son, Hugh Higginson, is an actor. And was a regular on 'The Bill' for over ten years. He played George Garfield. He's still acting and has been working in Australia, off and on. Most recently he did a film out there. He's back in this country at the moment and is married. I have a granddaughter who's just eight. And I have a daughter, Emma Higginson, who did a bit of acting but doesn't any more. She's married and has a son called Alfie.

AC: I was born in Bristol, my father was a journalist and we moved to Liverpool when I was six. I spent my formative years there, and went to dance school. Then I went to drama school and we moved down to London.

2. How tall are you and what is the colour of your eyes.

AC: I'm 5 foot 5. My eyes are green I think.

JC: Lets have a look?

AC: Hazel-green?

JC: Yep, hazel-green.

3. Do you still act?

AC: I don't act any more. I gave up acting about 14 years ago. I now work as an agent. I'm still very much involved in the acting profession, but I look after actors rather than act myself.

4. Did you always want to be an actress?

AC: Yes. I did always want to be one. I sort of combined bringing up my two children with the television work, when I was younger. Then as my kids grew up I did more theatre work. The last acting job I did was a play for the BBC called 'Keeping Tom Nice.' That was my last job… no, that's not true. I did the 'Paradise Club'. People often say to me; 'Do you miss acting' and I don't at all. I feel just as much involved working with my clients. Getting enjoyment out of the fact that a lot of them are doing very well. I'm very happy doing what I'm doing.

5. What other shows have you been in?

AC: When I was doing the Tomorrow People, when I did the first three or four episodes, I started working on an afternoon soap called rooms. Then I came back to do a few more episodes and I think they wanted me to do more as well, but I just couldn't because I wasn't available.

AC: After that I did an episode of the Sweeney, which was quite interesting because in that episode was an actor called John Hurt, who is now a big film star. He and I were at Radar together and we'd not seen each other for a long time and he was just about to hit the big time. It was good and a fun job and repeated quite a few times too.

JC: It says here that you played the role of an intelligent woman called Jenny Smart… did you enjoy making the episode?

AC: Yes, I did, very much. I remember that we did a lot of filming in a hotel near to Heathrow Airport. There was a lot of sitting around waiting to be used and that sort of thing. When I was acting, round about that time, I did quite a lot of work for Thames Television. They were good years.

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