Anna Torv

Anna Torv: I'm a huge camper, and love hiking and mountain biking. Since my show is filmed in New York City, I've been able to go to the Hudson Valley, in upstate New York, on weekends. Recently, friends and I went to Mohonk Mountain House [in New Paltz] and walked around the lake and swam. Two days of that and you feel great. I wear Blundstones for hiking. They're like a work boot with a bit of grip, so you can wear them all day. They're quite groovy."

Anna Torv: (about her character on Fringe) She's ridiculously focused and ridiculously determined. She's living in a man's world, and it's quite fun to not be constantly playing the love interest. That's what you get a lot of the time; you're playing these flirtatious scenes or you're going on dates or you're dressed up. I love that she's practical. She wears suits, and she doesn't wear lipstick; she just does her job.

Anna Torv: They freaked out when I had to do some of the driving though, because I'm from Australia and we drive on the other side of the street. Josh [Joshua Jackson] is a little bit scared as I'm looking over the wrong shoulder reversing back.

Anna Torv: (on suppressing her Australian accent and sounding American) You get into a groove and it becomes less cumbersome. Every now and then you slip up. You always lose it when you have to scream loudly or get emotional.

Anna Torv: (about the craziest thing she has done for the show Fringe) I don't know what I can say. I mean, seriously-- ... this sounds so boring--but, legitimately, standing outside of a hospital in minus 45 degrees with the wind blowing in my face, with no hat on, no gloves on, nothing on my face. That was insane. And the scene got cut from the pilot anyway.

Anna Torv: (on her series Fringe) That's the thing I love about this series, the potential to go in any direction. I keep thinking 'Ooh I hope it goes in this direction!' and then when I get a script it's so much better than I could have imagined.

Anna Torv: (on the show Fringe) What I love about the show is [the question of] the conspiracy, the retention of knowledge. Who really has that, and who has the power? If they're telling us they're able to clone a sheep, if that's OK for us to know, you go, 'Come on, what else are they doing?'

Anna Torv: ('this' referring to Fringe) As far as the paranormal, I'm a bit of a squib myself. All the gross stuff, I didn't have any interest in prior to this.

Anna Torv: I've found in my life that the parts that you're right for are the parts that you get. It's really usually quite easy because you're kind of right.

Anna Torv: I actually really love props, guns, anything that's active and moving because it gets you totally out of your own head and it gives you some kind of focus. You're kind of more engaged because there's more truth to what you're doing because you're actually holding it so I love all of that stuff. I love to be physically engaged.

Anna Torv: (on the show Mistresses) I'm relieved that in this show particularly there wasn't really a big deal made out of (being a lesbian). You have gay characters and it's usually, 'Ooh, she's gay and it's this and it's that', but they're having an affair like all the other characters in the show and it reads like a normal relationship - which is what it is.

Anna Torv: (on being associated with her billionaire uncle Rupert Murdoch) I hate that that even comes up. I've been estranged from my father since I was eight.

Anna Torv: (comparing herself to her character in The Secret Life of Us) I was cynical about life and particularly about love when I was younger, just like Nikki. Since then I have fallen in love but at the moment, Nikki is too afraid.

Anna Torv: (about her character Nikki in The Secret Life of Us) Nikki is harsh. I can understand why though and I hope the audience will also learn to understand in time.