For the title role Sabrina (1995), she was instructed to cut her waist-length hair, which did not thrill her fans.

Signed a two-year contract with Fox Searchlight Pictures to produce, direct and write. [May 1997]

She was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 2001 (2000 season) for Best Actress for her performance in My Zinc Bed at the Royal Court Theatre.

She actually plays the intro piano part in an early scene in Legends of the Fall (1994).

Trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, whose alumni include Terence Stamp, Hugh Bonneville, Rupert Friend, Angela Lansbury, Matthew Goode, Sue Johnston, Minnie Driver and Julian Fellowes.

Attended West Surrey College of Art and Design (1989); received London Drama Critics Award for best newcomer.

Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001.

Formed a production company called Indican (a take-off on the words "in the can").

Is said to be a direct, if distant niece of the Welsh rebel and prince Owain Glyndwr through her paternal grandmother, by way of Glyndwr's sister.

Daughter, Sophie (born fall 2004).

She starred in three consecutive films in which she is caught between two or more men: Brad Pitt, Aidan Quinn, and Henry Thomas in Legends of the Fall (1994); Sean Connery and Richard Gere in First Knight (1995); and Harrison Ford and Greg Kinnear in Sabrina (1995).

She was awarded the 1989 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Most Promising Newcomer for her performance in Faith, Hope and Charity.