Zoë Wanamaker: Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?

The question

Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Zoë Wanamaker

American-born British actress

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

The Dalai Lama because he has peace, and we all want that.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 March 2013 source ↗

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Person Dalai Lama

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Emeli Sandé British singer

Stevie Wonder: he’s brought so much joy to the world for so many years.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 January 2017 source ↗

Monica Ali British writer, novelist

Clive Stafford Smith. He campaigns for prisoners on death row in the US.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 April 2011 source ↗

Corinne Bailey Rae

My mum, for the way that she brought up her three children and managed to make her money work. She worked as a cleaner for all these families we went to church with. She would cycle there with my little sister on the back of her bike – we didn’t have a car. She had an amazing mind for planning and organising so that we got to do ballet, we went to Brownies.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 September 2023 source ↗

Emilia Fox English actress and presenter