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Mother of Keira Knightley & Caleb Knightley

Educated at the University of Edinburgh.

Her first play "When I Was a Girl I Use to Scream and Shout," written while performing as an actress at the Royal Court Theatre, won the Evening Standard Award for "most promising playwright."

Her first play, When I Was A Girl I Used to Scream And Shout, earned the 1984 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright.

Her 1997 play, "The Winter Guest", was adapted into a film and directed by the actor Alan Rickman, with whom she is good friends.

Has Scottish and Irish ancestry.

Personal Quotes

My daughter is followed all the time she's out. I'm lost in admiration for the way that she deals with it, but the paparazzi are an accident waiting to happen. The way they drive, you think, my God.