BAFTA Award Best Television Actress "Our Friends in the North" 1996
2002 Appeared in Sandra Bullock film "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood"
2002 Appeared in "The Reckoning"
2000 Starred opposite Helen Bonham Carter in "Women Talking Dirty"
2000 Acted on the London stage in "Five Kinds of Silence"
1999 Co-starred as the wheelchair-bound Bella in "Notting Hill"
1999 Had featured role as a waitress in Michael Winterbottom's "Wonderland"
1998 Played featured role in Mike Hodges' "Croupier"
1993 Appeared in "Naked", helmed by Mike Leigh
1988 Film debut in Ken Russell's "Lair of the White Worm"
Raised in County Durham, England