Background
Her father was a director of a textile company, and her mother, who trained at RADA, ended her acting career in order to become a full-time mother.
Her father was a director of a textile company, and her mother, who trained at RADA, ended her acting career in order to become a full-time mother.
She is the eldest of four privately educated children. After leaving school, she became a trainee fashion buyer at Harrods, before playing truant one day to go to an audition which led to her becoming a chorus girl, and then appearing with Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London"s West End.