Rehearsing and performing as "Cruella de Vil" in a production of Dodie Smith's "The Hundred and One Dalmatians", at the Theatre Royal in Nottingham. (July 2006)
Educated at an all girls school then a drama school.
Spotted in the street by a TV director who cast her as a punk in the films Quadrophenia and Jubilee.
She was the 3rd child of a joiner manufacturer.
Her pop career took off with 13 top 40 singles and 15 albums.