Debra Lawrance

Playing someone who has a mental illness, the responsibility to not stuff it up is really strong. You have to get it right. Not just for the people who are sufferers, but for the people who care about them - their loved ones.

I was Pippa on 'Home And Away' for nearly a decade.

There must be a little memory bank, a library or storage unit in my brain, that just tucks away memories of other people. I suck in as much of life as I can. I don't do it deliberately - I'm just curious. Dangerously so. I collect visual and aural patterns, physical human patterns, from experience.

Actors are there to represent the human condition back to itself. It's never about the actor. It's about the content. That's what I strive for in my work.