She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2012 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to film. She is a director.
Trained as a dancer at the London School of Contemporary Dance and
later co-founded the Limited Dance Company.
Left school at 16 to become a film-maker.
London, England: Film director (June 2012)
This is in awards - she won the Evening Standard best film screenplay award for The Party.