On my radar: Tanya Moodie’s cultural highlights

The Motherland actor on shouting at the television, the memoir she couldn't put down, and the street food she can't get enough of

Born in Canada in 1972, the actor Tanya Moodie began her career in theatre. In 2020 she won a Royal Television Society breakthrough award for playing alpha mum Meg in the BBC Two sitcom Motherland. She has appeared in Sherlock and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and performed in numerous stage productions for the RSC, Royal Court and the National Theatre. Moodie has been a practising Buddhist since 1994, and lives in south London with her partner and daughter. Her latest theatre role is in Alice Childress's 1955 play Trouble in Mind, directed by Nancy Medina, at the National Theatre, London, until 29 January 2022. The Motherland Christmas special is on BBC Two, Monday 20 December, 10.20pm.