Paula Wilcox: ‘How sad to have to choose. Let’s have it all’

Born in Manchester, Paula Wilcox, 76, moved to London at 17 to join the National Youth Theatre and was cast in Jack Rosenthal’s 1970 sitcom The Lovers, which ran for two series and became a film. She also appeared in The Liver Birds, Man About the House and Miss Jones and Son, and played two characters in Coronation Street.

On stage she starred in Shirley Valentine, Great Expectations and Canary. Her recent TV work includes Trying, The Cleaner, Avoidance and Channel 5’s new drama The Fortune. She is married and lives in London. Her greatest fear is being run over by a cyclist on a pavement or pedestrian crossing.

She describes herself in three words as 'impatient, funny, worrier' and names impatience as the trait she most deplores in herself; in others she dislikes complaining about the weather. Asked what superpower she'd choose, she wants to be able to fly — having played Peter Pan she remembers flying in a harness as 'a fantastic feeling'.

United Kingdom, London

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