Emerging from a London upbringing, she honed her craft at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in the 1980s, even performing Nina in a Moscow Art Theatre exchange production of The Seagull. After a stage debut in 1989’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, she entered television with roles in The Men’s Room and Agatha Christie’s Poirot before landing the breakout part of Karen Marsden in the comedy-…
