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• Born in post-war Germany to a British soldier and his wife, and raised in their native Wales until she was 13, when her family emigrated to New Zealand.
• Left school to become a full-time actress at age 16.
• One of her first professional jobs was as a dancer in an Auckland, New Zealand, production of John Osbourne's The Entertainer. Her costume consisted of three small, strategically placed Union Jack flags.
• Returned to England during her early 20s in order to push forward with acting.
• Among the jobs she supported herself with before her career took off were selling shoes and working in an antique store.
• A founding member of Actorum, the first actors' cooperative agency in Britain. 
• Supports the Princess Royal Trust for Carers.