My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something.
My father was a minister, and my mother was a music teacher.
I'd been involved in journalism for a long time - my dad's a journalist, he's written many books, and when I was twelve years old I wrote reports on local football matches for the newspapers.
My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.
I come from a family of professional dog-showers, one step above carnies, but I didn't want to join the family business.
Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.
My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.
My father was a television director and producer, working on documentaries and current affairs programmes including 'Panorama,' and I didn't think he'd find acting a sensible option. But as soon as I'd finished my A-levels, I got on a train to Edinburgh, and that was it.
My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but the acting influence must have been from her - yes, put it down to my mother.
My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things.
My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.
I was brought up in a publishing home, a newspaper man's home, and was excited by that, I suppose. I saw that life at close range and, after the age of ten or twelve, never really considered any other.
I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer.
My father was a newspaper editor, so I was surrounded by journalists my entire life. I think the fact that he was so well known may be why I chose to go into magazines and move to the States at a young age.
My father was a doctor so I was around death all my life. So, I was very used to it because he was a f-king doctor.
Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.
There was nobody in the family who had ever done anything like that before. My brothers - I had two brothers. They were twins. They both became architects. They were both six years older.
My father, a musician who worked with All India Radio, is no more. My mother had a government job at BSNL and was always opposed to my career in acting. She had seen the life my father had lived and did not like it.
I'll tell ya this: I come from an educated family. My father was an attorney representing blue collar workers, and my uncle was a chemical engineer... on my mom's side, all my uncles were engineers - all ten of them.
In fact, both my parents were doctors but I was a duffer.
My father's a firefighter. He was my whole life. And my brother-in-law and several family members are firefighters.
My dad is a director/producer and my mom is a dancer; she performed with Alvin Ailey, but I didn't even think about becoming an actress.
All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.
My father is my father, and I am me. I have the advantage of this honest comparison, quiet, and the opportunity to share in his profession.
Having a mom as a hairdresser was really awesome: I was always her test dummy. I've had every style, every color you could imagine.
