In 2001 moved to Los Angeles where she met English photographer, Nick Brandt, whom she married in December 2002 in the Chyulu Hills of Kenya.
When she was 25, moved to Paris where she studied at the L'École Philippe Gaulier, securing a place at Marcel Marceau's École Internationale de Mimodrame de Paris.
Her father ran a pub in Dublin.
Lived in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland, from birth until the age of seven.
Is the second of four children born to Patrick and his wife Catherine.
Educated at a Loreto Convent in Wicklow and an Ursuline Convent in Dublin.