- Olivier award winner for the play: 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime'.
- Attended Cambridge University where she met dramatist Sarah Phelps and comedian Sue Perkins. After graduation the three shared various London flats along with actress Emma Kennedy.
- Her son Harry (born in 2006) is named after Harry Pearce, the character of her co-star Peter Firth in Spooks.
- She left the hit television series MI-5 (2002) to give birth to her first child.
- Started off in the Cambridge Footlights.
- Daughter-in-law of actor Richard Kay.
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