(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Kristin Scott Thomas would love to become an opera singer.

The actress has carved out a successful career in Hollywood, and was nominated for an Oscar for her role in The English Patient. Despite this, Kristin has been considering pursuing other career avenues of late. She enjoys singing, and thinks it might be time to show off her voice in public.

I'd really like to be an opera singer. As a little girl I'd walk around the house using a big voice. I think I'm going to start that up again," she said.

Kristin plays the aunt of Beatles singer John Lennon in movie Nowhere Boy, which is released in American next month.

The 50-year-old actress didnt take the role lightly, and was determined to do justice to the woman who brought up the famous musician.

"I'm no Beatles fan, she confessed to Cindy Adams. I did research. Read the bios, studied the footage. This aunt was a real person, and I wanted to get her right. Be believable. And be general with her. Toward the end of his life, John tried to persuade her to come to America from England. She wouldn't. She'd telephone instead. This aunt raised him, loved him. And got a bad rap."

Kristen has been praised for her ability to emotionally connect to a role by the director of another of her recent movies Leaving. The film is about a well-to-do mother who goes back to work as a physiotherapist in the south of France and falls passionately in love.

"She has a mysterious frozen-beauty hardness tainted with melancholy that makes her fragile and vulnerable," said director Catherine Corsini. (C) Cover Media