Grew up in a cottage in Sussex with a garden that backed onto Ashdown Forest
Managed the transition from child to adult actress successfully
Best known for her role as forensic pathologist, Frankie Wharton, in the BBC series Waking the Dead (2000-04), which she left at the end of the fourth series to devote more time to her children
Has provided voiceover for natural history programmes such as Wild Majorca and for advertisements