Joanna Page reveals she's been advising daughter Eva, 13, about the acting industry as the teen looks set to follow in her footsteps

Joanna Page has revealed that she has been advising her 13-year-old daughter Eva about the acting industry as she hopes to follow in her footsteps. 

The Gavin & Stacey star, 49, is a proud mum to the teenage as well as Kitt, 11, Noah, nine and four-year-old Boe, whom she shares with husband of 23 years James Thornton.

Joanna said Eva is 'incredibly artistic' with an 'amazing singing voice' and has now decided she wants to go to drama school in London. 

Speaking to the Daily Mail, she said: 'She wants to be an actress. It was really weird because she's incredibly artistic, but she's an amazing drawer and so I thought for a while she was going to be a costume designer or she was going to work in the art department. 

'And now, suddenly overnight, she just wanted to be an actress. She's got an amazing singing voice and she's played the genie in Aladdin in school. I mean, she's done all sorts.

'She's got a brilliant voice but now she's wanting to do serious acting.'

Joanna Page has revealed that she has been advising her 13-year-old daughter Eva about the acting industry as she hopes to follow in her footsteps 

Discussing her teenage daughter's future, the author continued: 'She's got it all lined up, wants to go to drama school, wants to go to London.

'She's told me she won't be coming home for dinner and I'm not allowed to go into London and try and hang out with her. She's very independent right now. But yeah, she full-blown wants to be an actress.'

Asked what advice she has given her, Joanna insisted the trick to acting is 'never giving up', have 'confidence in yourself' and that an 'actor is always full of lies'.

The Welsh actress said: 'Just go for it, just be confident in yourself. Don't try and change the thing which makes you different to everybody else because that's the thing which makes you unique. 

'Don't try and fit in with anybody else. If you're in an audition, you use it as your time, it's your time, don't say, "Oh, thank you for seeing me". No, they desperately want you to get the job. If you walk in and they're like, "Whoa, we found the person straight away". That's amazing. 

'So the ball's in your court and use that time as it's your time to show off your ability and don't be scared to try something new. As an actor, you're always full of lies.'

'So you'll say, "Yes, I can ride a horse. Yes, I can do a boxing match", both things I've done myself, then you find yourself going, I need to get lessons.

'Have confidence in yourself. I never give up because it's really, really difficult, but just keep going,' she added.

Elsewhere Joanna said she 'will always get that mum guilt' as she attempts to balance her career with raising her four children with actor husband James.

She praised husband James for 'doing a brilliant job' while she is away from home and revealed the secret to her successful marriage.

Joanna admitted she and former Emmerdale star James, 50, are 'like passing ships in the night' but they always find time to talk and 'the odd bit of romance'.

She said: 'My husband is fantastic and he runs a tight ship, a perfect routine. But after a while, even if you were away from them for one day a week, you will always get that mum guilt because you want to be there with them.'

Asked what advice she has given her daughter, Joanna insisted the trick to acting is 'never giving up', have 'confidence in yourself' and that an 'actor is always full of lies'; pictured on Gavin & Stacey with Ruth Jones

Joanna, who has been with James after meeting in 1999, said married life is 'tough' and you have to work 'through hard times' sometimes as she revealed the secret to their 27-year relationship. 

She said: 'Doing our podcast Lush together, it's lovely because we'll be like passing ships in the night with the children.

'But then we get into the studio and we'll sit down and we'll just talk and talk and talk and it would be like when we went out on our first date.'

'I think [the secret] is realising that married life and living with somebody else is difficult. You go through hard times, you don't always get on with each other, you do end up annoying each other. 

'But don't give up. You just kind of go, well we are a team and ultimately our love is stronger than anything else.'

She continued: 'Life is tough. There are going to be times when you really get on my nerves or we fall out about certain things but you know, you're not going to just walk away from it, you work through any problems you've got. 

'We've grown together and we're still ultimately kind of the same people, even after having four children. We just love each other. We talk a lot and it's really important to make each other laugh.   

'The stuff I liked in the beginning, the fact that he was really arrogant and quite confident and a bit cocky, and all of that stuff doesn't even really matter. I still fancy him and he makes me laugh and he is very kind and very thoughtful.' 

She also added that it's important to put your phones away and 'look each other in the eye and listen to each other' and 'the odd bit of romance from him' goes a long way. 

The TV star is a proud mum to the teenage as well as Kitt, 11, Noah, nine and four-year-old Boe, whom she shares with husband of 23 years James Thornton

Joanna said the couple 'never go on dates' because they don't have the time or are too tired but James treats her to 'flowers and chocolates every now and then which are lovely'.  

The actress has teamed up with Smart Energy GB to encourage Brits to use their extra hour when the clocks go back as an opportunity to tick off things on their to-do list from bleeding radiators, defrosting the freezer to request a smart meter installation.

Joanna said: 'General daily life is quite stressful because we've got so many things that we have to do that, doing all of this now with our power hour and then having a Smart Meter as well has lightened the load a bit.

'Having our smart meter installed was just basically a phone call and then when they came round to install it, it took all of 2 seconds and it was up and running.'