I've got four piercings in my left, so we've dubbed my right one the 'period drama ear.' I have to be filmed from that side when I do emotional close-ups in 'Downton.'
This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.
I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite.

