Alex Kingston

In England, 'Doctor Who' has always been considered a children's show, at least by children.

In England, there just isn't that fascism of beauty and physicality or whatever. You don't have to look like a gym bunny, all buffed up and a size two. You're not judged the way you are in the States.

Most Americans don't even know that Minnie Driver is English or that Catherine Zeta Jones is Welsh, but people are reminded every time 'ER' is shown that I'm the British Dr. Corday.

Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

My daughter was born in the States, and she went into the educational system here.

If anyone out there wants me to play a Pre-Raphaelite character, I'd do it in a flash. That's what is so curious about my playing a modern doctor. It's not the sort of part I saw for myself when I began acting.

Social media worries me because it's not part of my world.