The actor on how moving away from the family home strengthened her marriage

Actor Anna Healy pictured for People and Culture. Photo: Gerry Mooney
‘I feel we live so long now that the challenge is to reinvent ourselves all the time, and to keep going back in to see if we’re still alive, or if we’re just pacing out the hours and the minutes?”
Anna Healy is talking about the time when, almost 10 years ago, she returned to acting, and moved out of the Belfast family home she shared with her husband, actor and voiceover artist Jonathan (Jo) Dow.