Studied French and German at Manchester University. As part of her
course she spent a year teaching English to teenagers in Toulouse.
She grew up in London, attending Putney High School and then St Paul's
Girl's School where she took her A-Levels.
Enjoys photography, art, cinema, skiing and lives in West London.
Her first TV appearance was at the age of fourteen when she appeared
briefly in a BBC report for Nationwide (1969) about her mother's bee-keeping
enterprise. A few years later, she was one of several teenagers to be
interviewed by TV-AM in a feature on "Good Morning Britain" (1984)_
about pocket money.