My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.
Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.
I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.
My mum lives near Holkham Bay in Norfolk, and with my dad by the coast in Suffolk, I spend quite a bit of time by the sea.
My life started on the banks of the Boyne in County Meath. Navan is the name of the town; only me, Mom, Dad.
My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.
My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.
I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.
My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.
I love eating at my dad's pub, the Queens Arms in Kilburn. It does a traditional Albanian spinach pie.
My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.
I grew up loving Walter Payton. My dad used to always show us film of him.
I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.
I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry.
The thing is, my dad's always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursuits, but nobody can escape the passion that football stirs.
My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.
I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.
I didn't know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didn't know any arty types.
I'm black. I'm Latina. My mom is Cuban. Afro-Cuban. My dad is white and Australian.
But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.
My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
