She has had numerous roles on British television, including Six Characters in Search of an Author, The Camomile Lawn, The Vacillations Of Poppy Carew,The Virgin Queen which also starred Anne-Marie Duff. and Joanne Whalley and beginning in 2007, Waking the Dead. Is now part of Wm. Morrison Supermarkets 2008 fresh food advertising campaign.

Her stage roles have included Blanche Dubois in an Bristol Old Vic 2000 production of A Streetcar Named Desire, and Ophelia (opposite Ralph Fiennes) in a 1995 production of Hamlet; for the latter she won a New York Drama Critics Circle Best Supporting Actress Award.

She acted in the academy award nominated Czech movie Dark Blue World and was paired with Hugh Grant in The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain and Sirens, the latter prompting a listing on the first FHM list of the 100 Sexiest Women in the World for her nude appearance. She also had major roles in New World Disorder and the film adaption of Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle. Read more...