Gave birth to her first child at age 38, a son Jonathan Tham on December 25, 1990. Child's father is her husband, Johan Tham.
Has acted in three different versions of "The Railway Children": "The Railway Children" (1968), The Railway Children (1970), The Railway Children (2000) (TV)).
Husband is Swedish and a hotelier. They met at an arts fair.
In the late 1980s, along with fellow Brit performers Judy Geeson, Ian McKellen, Timothy Dalton and Olivia Hussey, she volunteered teaching Shakespeare to children at a school in Watts, Los Angeles.
She once spent a night sleeping rough in London to highlight the plight of the homeless.
She sang backing vocals on the 1990 Paddy McAloon (aka "Prefab Sprout") song, "Wild Horses".