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• She used to smoke but subtituted it with yoga
  
  
• She likes to wear Clinique "rasberry Jam" gloss lipstick
  
  
• While studying English at Cambridge, she co-founded a theatre company called "Talking Tongues", which has performed at the Edinburgh Fridge Festival.
  
  She has played opposites of:
  
• Keanu Reeves ('96 Chain Reaction)
  
• Vincent Perez ('97 Swept from the Sea)
  
• Alessandro Nivola ('98 I Want You)
  
• Brendan Fraser ('99 The Mummy)
  
  
• Hugh Hefner requested that she pose for Playboy, she didn't accept.
  
  
• Didn't change her last name because she didn't want to betray her family
  
  
• She has been linked with Neil Morrisey, whom she starred in with My Summer With Des and Alessandro Nivola, whom she starred in with I Want You, and Academy Award Winner, director Sam Mendes
  
  
• It was rumored that she dated Keanu Reeves. He was her date for the Stealing Beauty Movie premiere and he escorted her in crutches form a bike accident. They read Shakespeare to each other and were seen at restuarants together, but when asked if they we dating, they said that they were just friends
  
  
• Her first trip abroad was to Venice when she was seven. She and her family used to do a house exchange and she thought that they got the best deal, staying in a flat in the old part of the city.
• She thinks she will never have children. She says "I can't imagine the idea, I find it petrifying. The responsibility, the fact that you can't walk away, that it's forever"