I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of years.
I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm really excited to be getting back to my acting roots.
I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?
I've essentially done theater for more of my life than I've done television or film, and it's really something I feel I know better.
Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.
I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.
I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used to go to the theater with my parents in the north of England, where I was born and brought up... Theater of all sorts.
I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.
I get my love of acting from my dad.
Along with being around the 'Roseanne' stuff, I've been following my mom and my dad back to Steppenwolf.
I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.
I wouldn't be the same actor if I couldn't do theater.
Chicago actors and Chicago theater is some of the most authentic stuff that you will ever encounter, and I'm so proud to have come up from that. It's where I cut my teeth and where I found my passion for this work.
My roots were in acting. That's all I wanted to be. Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'
I didn't know anyone in my family who acted; no one in my immediate family did any acting.
I feel like I was born an actor. I did not pursue acting until I was a bit older. But I got a taste of it at an earlier age in the UK.
I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.
