After Dinner Speakers: Hermione Norris, Janet Jackson, Rose Royce

Hermione Norris, 34, was born in Essex. Her parents divorced when she was four, and she was brought up in Derbyshire by her mother, a health visitor. Having trained as a dancer, she went on to work in the theatre, appearing in Chekhov's The Seagull at the Moscow Arts Theatre, Stephen Poliakoff's Blinded By The Sun at the National, and the world premiere of Ariel Dorfman's Reader at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre. She is best known for her role in the Granada TV drama Cold Feet. She's currently filming a new ITV series called "Wire in the blood".. She is single and lives in London. Hermione is a real adrenaline- junkie, and she into bungee- jumping and scuba- diving( just to mentiion some of the crazy things she has done...). She's also likes yoga. Friends call her Duracell, because she throws herself into things with such determination.