Career
She has appeared in new plays at the Royal Court, the Almeida, the Bush and the Tricycle Theatre(s). She frequently appears on British television Notable television appearances include Casualty (she played student nurse Kelly Liddle in a number of episodes in 1991, the television series "99-1" playing Liz Hulley in 1994, Alan Ayckbourn"s West End premiere of "Communicating Doors" at the Gielgud Theatre in 1996, playing the time-travelling prostitute Poopay, as well as the 1997 television drama "The Woman in White" playing Margaret Porcher, and the Peter Kosminsky film "The Innocents" playing Helen Rickard in 2000.
She was brought up in Bristol and was educated at Monks Park Comprehensive School, leaving when she was sixteen.
She is an active campaigner for the mental health charity, MIND.
The Bill (1989, 1992, 1994, 1998)
Casualty (1991) as Kelly Liddle
Inspector Morse (1991) as Mission Redpath
Maine, You and Him (1993) as Clare Taylor
The Mary Whitehouse Experience (1991) in sketch parts
Close Relations (1990) as WPC Lindsay
Business with Friends (1992)
Agatha Christie"s Poirot (1993) as Lily
Calling the Shots (1993) as Angela
99-1 (1994) as Liz Hulley
The Changeling (1994) as Diaphanta
The Woman in White (1997) as Margaret Porcher
"Wycliffe" (1998) as Janet Miller
Innocents (2000) as Helen Rickard
Midsomer Murders (2001) as Annie Tyson
Murder (2002) as Val
40 (2003) as Jodie
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2005) as Liz Hughes
Holby City (2002, 2006)
EastEnders (2008) as Detective Sergeant Louise Hills
Doctors (2012) as Jo
Silent Witness (2012) as Mrs Hancock
Casualty (2014, 2015) as Doctor of Science Gill Mangrove
New Tricks (2015) as Lizzy Bentham
Father Brown (2016) as Iris Lightman, episode 4.3 "The Hangman"s Demise".