Emerging from a creative family in Islington, she earned a scholarship to the Italia Conti Academy and later completed a master’s in film production. Her screen debut arrived with Empire State (1987), followed by a breakthrough in Diamond Skulls (1989) that led to the role of Lucy Westenra in Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992). Throughout the 1990s she appeared in The Krays, Magic…