Cathy's return to the stage after studying
I have insatiable excitement about it, I wake up at 4.30am as ideas are popping up. I have to put myself back into bed!
Actress Cathy Tyson reveals she didn't let a low wage stand in her way of playing scientist Marie Curie in the play Radiance.
Cathy, who shot to fame thanks to career-defining roles in the 1986 film Mona Lisa and Kay Mellor's 90s TV hit Band Of Gold, returned to acting last year after taking a four-year break to go to university and study literature and drama.
She said: "It's an incredibly rewarding role but it's Fringe Theatre, we're not getting paid very much for it but it doesn't feel like that as I'm getting rewards back."
Radiance opens on 4 February at The Tabard Theatre in London.