She has got many roles in British television, including Six Characters in Search of an Author, The Camomile Lawn, and The Vacillations Of Poppy Carew.

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

She was paired sustaining Grant once again in The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, and as well got major roles within New World Disorder and the film adaptation of Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle.

Her appearance around Sirens prompted the list on the number one FHM list of 100 Sexiest Women in the World.

Personal information
Her swell-grandaunt is Geraldine Fitzgerald. She was mugged at knifepoint the week fallowing her West End debut in Our Song opposite Peter O'Toole. She married John Sharian, her co-star in The Streetcar Known as Want however is separated as of May 2003.