The Observer's faces of 2015
Headline makers of the past year talk about the highs and lows of their time in the spotlight
Viola Davis: ‘We have to live our truths through our work and define ourselves in our own terms’
Nicola Walker: ‘I’m glad I wasn’t recognised when I was 21. I wouldn’t have been able to handle it’
Jessica Ennis-Hill: ‘Once I had Reggie, he became the priority’
Nicola Sturgeon: ‘The most dangerous woman in Britain? I owe the Daily Mail big time for that’
Abby Tomlinson: ‘I still think about how it would be if Ed Miliband had won the election’
Alek Skarlatos: ‘I saw this guy with an AK-47, tapped my friend on the shoulder and said: Let’s go’
Nujeen Mustafa: ‘Sometimes it’s good to be unaware. Maybe I was too young to realise the danger’
Marlon James: ‘I’ve been threatening to write a Viking novel for almost 10 years’
Florence Welch: ‘It was intense. And really cathartic. I’d been living with these new songs for a long time’
Michele Battelli: ‘It was the loudest noise I’ve ever heard. It felt like the whole mountain was coming down’
Davide Martello: ‘My friends were saying – don’t go, there are still terrorists on the streets’
