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<\/p>\nSuranne Jones says she is looking forward to working on projects that involve her being behind the camera in future.<\/p>\n
The actress, 45, recently returned to screens as her character\u00a0DCI Amy Silva in the second series of BBC police drama Vigil.<\/p>\n
And, while she has many screen acting credits to her name from Coronation Street, to\u00a0Scott & Bailey and\u00a0Doctor Foster among other, she is looking forward to giving more attention to her career as a producer going forward.<\/p>\n
She and her husband,\u00a0former magazine editor Laurence Akers, run a production company together called TeamAkers Productions Ltd.<\/p>\n
While Suranne stars in\u00a0TeamAkers Productions’\u00a0Maryland for ITV, set for release next year, she is looking forward to taking a step back from the limelight.<\/p>\n
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Suranne Jones, 45, says she is looking forward to working on projects that involve her being behind the camera in future (pictured in May)<\/p>\n
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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)<\/p>\n
The star explained: ‘Me and my husband, we set up our production company and made Maryland and we just made our first documentary.\u00a0We just got two commissions that will go into production next year.<\/p>\n
‘I love it. I’m hoping to eventually make projects that I’m not in. I can have a couple of tea and chill.<\/p>\n
‘It would be good to not do everything. But I’m very excited about our projects next year.’<\/p>\n
It comes after Suranne admitted she is ‘constantly trying to balance her life and career as a mother’.<\/p>\n
The star,\u00a0who 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.<\/p>\n
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’.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
‘I have a child. I share that [with Amy]. I’m constantly trying to balance my life and my career. I share that.’<\/p>\n
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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)<\/p>\n
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.’<\/p>\n
She spoke of her joy that so many dramas, like Vigil, have strong women in lead roles.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
‘So I think the key is just to not settle and to keep finding the stories and pushing those people to come forward.’<\/p>\n