[1] She started French and Drama teacher training near Manchester, then attended Mountview Theatre School.
at the London Palladium in 1994, and can be heard singing the song "That's Your Funeral" (with David Delve) on the cast recording.
She has also made many single television appearances, including playing Jill, the receptionist from Pear Tree Productions, in one episode of the first series of I'm Alan Partridge, a rural dominatrix in Doc Martin as well as roles in Midsomer Murders and Coronation Street.
She appeared in the sketch comedy series Big Train alongside fellow Spaced cast members Simon Pegg and Mark Heap.
In 2009 she was cast as Maggie, a Brighton mother in Ben Wheatley's British crime film Down Terrace.