Gwen Cooper Mirrors Eve Myles

Eve Myles has disclosed that she relates to the family struggles that her Torchwood character Gwen Cooper endures this season.

The Welsh actress explained that she was adapting to motherhood and coming to grips with her parents' failing health while filming scenes of Gwen attempting to save her family in Miracle Day.

"Torchwood seems to be mirroring my life somehow this year. Gwen's got a young child, and I've got a 16-month-old baby girl, so I had to move my entire family over here to pursue this," Myles told TV Guide. "Then something happens with Gwen's family, and my mother had a heart attack while I've been away, and my father has cancer."

Myles continued: "Everything happening in the show's story seems to be happening in my life, so it's a bit peculiar. But there's a light at the end of the tunnel for everything, I believe. And Torchwood has just absolutely rocked this year."

Myles also teased that much of the drama in the first episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day centres on Gwen's attempt to justify her desire to eradicate hostile aliens against her responsibilities as a new mother.

"The last time you saw her, she was six months pregnant, and now she's got a 6-month old. She went into hiding with her family as soon as Jack disappeared [in Children of Earth] and when we resume, you find her living in the most remote part of the world, this tiny little cottage on the edge of a cliff, no roads in to or out of it," the star revealed.

"They are self-sufficient, growing all their own food. What we find out is that this idyllic chocolate box is completely kicked up to the hilt, armed with every weapon known to man including a rocket launcher, every kind of missile, knife, gun, anything. She's prepared for war. She's hysterical. Life is really only idyllic for Rhys."

Myles previously claimed that she'd "absolutely" be willing to star in a feature film version of Torchwood.

Source: Digital Spy