ACTION WOMAN

She made her name in period dramas, but Sophie Rundle loves her stunt-filled role in crime series After The Flood

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Going back to work after maternity leave can be a head scramble for any new mother - but it was especially bewildering for actress Sophie Rundle.

After the birth of her second baby, Sophie returned to film After The Flood alongside her real-life partner Matt Stokoe. With two young children at home, the pair weren't sleeping and after being woken in the night by their own baby, they'd then arrive on set to play parents to another one.

Sophie, 37, explains, "We'd be up all night with our baby and then we'd go to work exhausted and be given a different baby! And then I'd be like, 'Well, there's Matt but he doesn't look exactly like Matt, and the baby doesn't look like our baby.' So it was a little bit of a mind scramble! We were just very tired and confused a lot of the time."

Series one of the police drama was a hit with fans and Sophie is now reprising her role as fearless detective Jo Marshall, who is embroiled in a baffling new murder investigation, while still battling to expose the corruption she uncovered in the first series.

Matt, who is best known for his leading role in ITV's