She was natural within Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Whenever her personal moved to the flatboat around London, she was educated at St Paul's Girls School inside Hammersmith & Westminster School, and then took her degree at Exeter College, Oxford. She so trained at a Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Her films include Privileged, Erik the Viking, True Colors, Jack and Sarah, Sense and Sensibility, and Twelfth Night. She has likewise appeared in television (notably ahead role in the series "Anna Lee") & in stage.

She is married to Sir Trevor Nunn; they use ii babies.