Trivia

Good friends with Tim Curry and Ian McKellen.

Half-sister of author John le Carré; the two died within a month of each other.

Has a daughter, Nancy, from a past relationship with Kenneth Cranham.

She trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, whose alumni include Terence Stamp, Julia Ormond, Rupert Friend, Angela Lansbury, Matthew Goode, Daniel Hunt, Sue Johnston, Hugh Bonneville and Julian Fellowes.

Her brother Rupert Howard Cornwell, acclaimed journalist in Washington, Rome and Moscow and author (God's Banker) was born 22 February 1946 and died 31 March 2017.

Lived with actor Kenneth Cranham for a number of years from '1973 and had a daughter Nancy born May 1976.