Was originally going to star in Enigma (2001), but the producers found that Kate Winslet was available. She was paid her full fee of £300,000 and appeared in The Novice at the Almeida Theatre instead.
She lives in east London.
Graduated from the Guildhall of Music and Drama school (London) in 1994.
Appeared in a theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue alongside
Dominic Rowan, Derek Jacobi and Joanna David in A Voyage Round My
Father, playing one of Mortimer's wives. (December 2006)
From 10th May 2000, she was in Jean-Paul Sartre's "Les Mains" at the
Almeida Theatre. She was joined by Kenneth Cranham and Jamie Glover,
and directed by Richard Eyre.
Has a cat called Sylvia.
Mother, with husband Bo Poraj, of sons Gabriel Matthew Frederick Herbert Poraj-Pstrokonski (b. 2004) and Joel Poraj-Pstrokonski (b. 2008).