Sarah Parish: What is your greatest fear?

The question

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.

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

Sarah Parish

English actress

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Losing Nell.

The Guardian, Interview, The Guardian, 28 December 2019 source ↗

Others on this question

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Stephen Fry Actor, writer and broadcaster

Being found out.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2015 source ↗

Tony Christie

I don’t have a great fear of anything. I look at things with positive eyes.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 January 2024 source ↗

Gloria Steinem Writer and feminist organiser

Dying just a millisecond before I was about to say something I really wanted the people I love to hear.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2020 source ↗

Ephraim Asili Filmmaker, Educator, and DJ

My fear, my anxiety, that I’m grappling with in this film, is that if we’re not able to struggle with the domestic things

Recorded Devika Girish, The New York Review of Books, 11 April 2021 source ↗

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Question What most recently made you cry? Identity & self

I cry all the time, it’s an embarrassment.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 December 2019 source ↗

Question When were you happiest? Time & hindsight

In the first month of my second daughter Nell’s life. My first daughter, Ella-Jayne, was born with a serious heart defect so I didn’t get to just be a mum, I was a carer for the eight months of her life and lived in a hospital. When Nell was born, having a healthy child and being able to be a mum was incredible.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 December 2019 source ↗