Hannah Waddingham suffers from "mum guilt".

While the 51-year-old Ted Lasso star loves her career, she admitted she finds it a struggle to be away from her 12-year-old daughter Kitty, who she shares with her ex-partner, Italian hotel manager and businessman Gianluca Cugnetto.

When asked if she ever suffers from mum guilt, Hannah told The Guardian newspaper: "God, all the time. I'm about to go away to do press for the next season of Ted [Lasso], and the mummy guilt descends. But I have to try and combat it."

Hannah admitted that is the main reason she has not done any stage work recently, saying: "I don't think my daughter is ready.

"I need to find the time to be able to go, 'I'm taking this coat off for now and I'm putting my [stage] coat back on.'"

Hannah does her best to show her daughter she is thinking of her, even when she is working, famously carrying a cardboard clutch made by Kitty on the red carpet at the Screen Actors Guild awards, in 2024.

She said: "I picked it up and went, 'It's actually got more space in it than a normal, designer, ridiculous handbag, so I'm going to take it up the red carpet.' I did it on purpose, to show her that she's never far away from me."

Hannah brought her daughter with her to Prague for five months and enrolled her in an international school when she filmed her latest project, Ride or Die, with Octavia Spencer.

Speaking about her character in the project, she said: "She's an assassin of some 30 years. I did 75 - 80 per cent of my own stunts. But, it was partly not a good idea, because I did mangle myself senseless.

"It's about calling each other out, holding each other up, and showing that women in their 50s can be all things, when they decide to chop and change."

And, Hannah firmly believes that women can do anything at any age, citing her own success coming later in life.

She said: "I've talked about it to a couple of people, who've had that thing of the 'overnight success' later in their careers. There are a few of us who have been right in the belly of things, working in places that are not as la-di-da as you would have in TV. An overnight success after 25 years is delicious. And I'm fine with it, because I'm very at peace with who I am. I'm more than happy to share that I'm 51 and proud of it."