Attended convent schools and wanted to be a nun when she was young.
Daughter Charlotte Wiseman is a costume designer.
Daughter of Mara Purcell.
Former long-term companion was British actor Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient (1996)). They met while performing the play Hamlet in 1994. She portrayed Gertrude, he Hamlet. The couple broke up in February, 2006.
Has 3 children (daughters: Charlotte and Taran, son: Andreas - a.k.a. Rainbow) from a long relationship with Patrick Wiseman that began in 1976.