Nicola Walker snoops on cast mates when signing up for new projects

Nicola Walker has revealed she likes snooping on her cast mates when taking on new projects.

The 51-year-old actress has admitted that she likes to look up her fellow actors and actresses on the internet before she appears in a new programme.

Nicola - who played detective DCI Cassie Stuart in the hit series 'Unforgotten' - told the Daily Star's Hot TV column: "You have to pretend you don’t know anything about them. It is my favourite bit when I say, ‘So are you married? Do you have children?’ I know I’ve already looked you up on Wikipedia’.

"Isn’t it terrible?"

Nicola will reprise her role as divorce lawyer Hannah Stern in the third and final series of the BBC drama 'The Split' and hinted what viewers can expect from the show's concluding season.

Speaking to ‘What to Watch’, Nicola said: "I don't think it's going to go where you might imagine… It's beautifully complicated and Abi Morgan [the show’s writer] doesn't shy away from how messy this will get. Nathan goes through the wringer. But they both get into trouble. At times they behave beautifully and at others, you want to kick both of them out the door! You’ll shout at all of us, it’s not easy to pick who to bless and who to blame."

Nicola confessed that she is sad that the show is coming to an end.

She said: "The punishment for being involved with Abi's great writing and all these brilliant, lovely actors and crew is that it's hard to let them go. I needed tissues when I read the scripts. I found it upsetting in more than one story. But it’s joyful too! I can’t hint at anything else, apart from the fact that it ends with a wedding..."