It’s the opportunity to correct her mistakes and compensate for any issues that Anna Torv most loves about working in TV. The Melbourne, Australia-born Torv, who stars in J.J. Abrams’ freshman Fox hit “Fringe” as Special Agent Olivia Dunham, marvels that “you always get another chance … and another chance. You get to change the character around all the time, to hone it, to sculpt it.

“But the process itself can also be hard for me as an actress,” she continues. “I’m very much my own worst critic, and it’s never going to be perfect, so watching myself can spur a cycle of self-loathing that produces self-consciousness in the work. It’s difficult enough for me to convince myself I’m a CIA agent in the best of times. At the end of the day, you have to just give yourself over to the objectivity of your work and go with it or it drives you crazy.”

Fortunately, something will strike Torv as completely absurd during each day’s lengthy shoot — and it brings her back down to earth and outside of herself, she says.

“You can’t really take yourself too seriously when there’s a person inside a body bag — a living, breathing person — who has just had the prop master in charge put bugs all over them. Actual bugs. If I don’t get sick, it cracks me up and leaves me feeling better about everything.”

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