• her parents got devorced when she was 15
• was a radical feminist at university
• her father is an inventor, he invented respirators that supplied their own oxygen and machines that sense land mines
• was in the same class as actress Emily Mortimer
• ranked #30 in Stuff magazine's 102 Sexiest Women in the World in 2002
• her idols are Gena Rowlands, Katharine Hepburn, Jack Nicholson, Shirley MacLaine, Ingrid Bergman, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin
• played with both Fiennes brothers: with Raph in Constant gardener and with Joseph in Enemy at the gates
• gave birth to her son Henry on 31. May 2006
• won Oskar for playing pregnant woman in Constant gardener (in fact she was really pregnant)
• her favourite film is Performance
• her good friends are Jude Law and Susan Lynch (actors), Narciso Rodríguez and Donna Karan (fashion designers)
• was offered a large part in the Richard Gere movie King David (1985) when she was only 14, but she said no because her parents wouldn't let her do it and she was also afraid of her schoolmates´s jealousy
• her car is an old, black Jaguar 4.2 Sovereign with pepper-pot wheels