- Born
- Height5′ 8½″ (1.74 m)
- She broke into modeling at 17. invested her money wisely and co wrote a best selling book 'Money and How to Make it' While at school she had a Saturday job at a branch of Woolworths, Later she spent 10 years as a model then in 1979 did a Campari commercial which brought her to notice and appearances in such television shows as Blankety Blank, Celebrity Squares. Worzel Gummidge and such sit coms as Lame Ducks, and The Other Half and cameos in Casualty. The Bill an Lock, Stock as Barbie. She lived with advertising director john Knight for10 years- IMDb mini biography by: Tonyman 5
- Long waist-length hair
- Cockney accent
- In 2000, she was almost killed in a car crash when the car she was driving plummeted 30 foot down a bridge and she had to be cut from the wreckage. She spent four day in hospital with facial injuries and had to have part of her ear sewed back on after it was ripped off.
- She is a two-time cancer survivor and has publicly stated her plans to end her life at a Swiss suicide clinic should she ever get a diagnosis of terminal cancer. Before that, she would celebrate her life with loved ones, ideally with a farewell party on a cruise ship. She said this decision was partly because of her having to watch her partner John Knight die from lymphoma in 1997..
- Bears a striking resemblance to actress Sheree Murphy and Emmerdale executive producer Steve Frost chose her to play Sheree's mother in the program especially for the likeness.
- Educated at Peckham Girls Comprehensive School.
- Lorraine is well known for her strong cockney accent, and people often need to translate what she says because of her frequent use of cockney slang
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