1. When did you think about acting as a career and what were your first steps into it?
I never thought about it as a career. It never ever felt like a career and it still doesn't. Once I left college and started earning money I thought "if I can eat and pay my rent and still do this, then good" and now I think "if my kid has everything he needs, and I can pay the mortgage then, phew". I 'play' for a living and I'm constantly thinking that one day I'm going to have to grow up and do a proper job. Luckily that hasn't happened, yet.
2. Best gigs you’ve been to?
The Waterboys, Joan As Police Woman and Leonard Cohen.
3. Fantasy wedding/birthday party band?
The cast of the musical Hamilton.
4. The record you’d take to a desert island?
Gil Scott-Heron's The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
5. And the book?
The Bible.
6. Top three films?
Dancer in the Dark, Dog Day Afternoon and Sweet Dreams (the story of Patsy Cline).
7. Worst film you've seen?
The Next Best Thing – the one with Madonna and Rupert Everett.
8. Favourite authors?
Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan and John McGahern.
9. Sport you most enjoy and top team?
I love to box as a form of exercise. My team is A.S. Atletico Trivento in European football. My mother’s Italian and it's her team; so it's mine too.
10. Ideal holiday destination?
Datai Langhawi hotel in Malaysia.
11. Pet hate?
People eating smelly food on trains.
12. What’s your favourite:
Dinner? My husband's roast dinner.
Dessert? Cotswold Pudding Company's sticky toffee pudding.
Drink? Vintage Laurent-Perrier Champagne.
13. Who is your best friend and how do you know each other?
I've known Elaine since I was 11 and we met at school, but for this interview I will pick my Dublin buddy John Fox. He's a writer whom I met at Youth Theatre. We were 15 and 17. I was in love with his passion and his spirit. I still am.
14. Is there a God?
Well if there is... he's making a real balls of things, isn't he?
:: Susan Lynch stars in Bad Day for the Cut, a Northern Ireland revenge thriller that closes this year's Belfast Film Festival on April 9. For programme details and tickets visit Belfastfilmfestival.org
