Her father Harold was born in London to a Polish Jewish family;[2] her mother Sandra is from County Wexford.

Her brother, Mark Huberman, is also an actor and worked in films such as Boy Eats Girl and on The Clinic as Kieran Miller.

[3] She was educated at Loreto College, Foxrock and she took classes in the Betty Ann Norton Drama School.

Following school, she attended University College Dublin (UCD) intending to become a social worker, but when she found the drama society her career took a different direction.

[10] Huberman married former Ireland rugby captain Brian O'Driscoll in July 2010 in Lough Rynn Castle;[11] the couple have three children.