Suranne Jones says she is looking forward to working on projects that involve her being behind the camera in future.
The actress, 45, recently returned to screens as her character DCI Amy Silva in the second series of BBC police drama Vigil.
And, while she has many screen acting credits to her name from Coronation Street, to Scott & Bailey and Doctor Foster among other, she is looking forward to giving more attention to her career as a producer going forward.
She and her husband, former magazine editor Laurence Akers, run a production company together called TeamAkers Productions Ltd.
While Suranne stars in TeamAkers Productions’ Maryland for ITV, set for release next year, she is looking forward to taking a step back from the limelight.
Suranne Jones, 45, says she is looking forward to working on projects that involve her being behind the camera in future (pictured in May)
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The actress recently returned to screens as her character DCI Amy Silva in the second series of BBC police drama Vigil (pictured)
The star explained: ‘Me and my husband, we set up our production company and made Maryland and we just made our first documentary. We just got two commissions that will go into production next year.
‘I love it. I’m hoping to eventually make projects that I’m not in. I can have a couple of tea and chill.
‘It would be good to not do everything. But I’m very excited about our projects next year.’
It comes after Suranne admitted she is ‘constantly trying to balance her life and career as a mother’.
The star, who shares a seven year-old son with husband Laurence, recently spoke about how she and her Vigil character DCI Amy Silva are both women constantly striving for more.
Suranne said she and Amy are also both women who are trying to ‘balance’ their lives and careers, and detailed how she too has struggled with ‘anxiety’.
She said: ‘Being a woman who constantly wants to prove herself and feels like a responsibility of many people, when we’re out filming and when crews are doing lots for us – I think Amy and I share that.
‘I have a child. I share that [with Amy]. I’m constantly trying to balance my life and my career. I share that.’
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She and her husband, former magazine editor Laurence Akers, run a production company together called TeamAkers Productions Ltd, which she is hoping to concentrate on (Suranne and Laurence pictured in 2019)
Suranne, who has previously opened up about living with anxiety, added: ‘I’ve had issues with anxiety, which Amy has had. So there’s a lot of things that I can relate to. That’s the beauty of finding the characters where you can go, “that’s the one” when you read it.’
She spoke of her joy that so many dramas, like Vigil, have strong women in lead roles.
She added: ‘I think we just don’t take our foot off the gas – that’s the big thing. From I started, 25 years ago, things have come a long way. There are so many people who can put our stories, which is fabulous, and TV has changed.
‘So I think the key is just to not settle and to keep finding the stories and pushing those people to come forward.’
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