First appearance on stage in "Harvey" at the Repertory Theatre in Ireland

Professional London stage debut in "Love's Labours Lost" (at Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park)

Member of the Memorial Theatre Company, Stratford-on-Avon

Made British TV debut in "Hilda Lessways"

Joined the Old Vic Theatre Company

Made US stage debut in "Twelfth Night" at the Ravinia Festival in Illinois

Made Broadway debut in "The Killing of Sister George"; earned first Tony Award nomination

Made Film debut in "Inadmissible Evidence"

Co-created the award-winning ITV series "Upstairs, Downstairs"

Directed by Patrick Garland in the one woman show "A Room of One's Own"; based on an essay by Virginia Woolf

Appeared Off-Broadway in "Vita and Virginia" opposite Vanessa Redgrave (also wrote)

Joined the cast of Jean Cocteau's Broadway play "Indiscretions"; nominated for her third Tony Award

Scripted the film adaptation of Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" starring Vanessa Redgrave

Cast in the London production of "The Unexpected Man" opposite Michael Gambon

Reprised role for the Off-Broadway production of "The Unexpected Man" opposite Alan Bates

Played the mentor to a college professor (played by Emma Thompson) stricken with terminal cancer in the Mike Nichols' directed "Wit" (HBO)

Cast as the head cook in the Robert Altman directed period mystery "Gosford Park"

Appeared in the Anthony Minghella directed "Cold Mountain"

Starred opposite John Lithgow in "The Retreat From Moscow"; received fourth Tony nomination

Performed on Broadway in the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Doubt" opposite Ron Eldard and Jena Malone

Co-starred with Colin Farrell in the Robert Towne-directed adaptation of John Fante's Depression Era novel, "Ask the Dust"

Appeared in in Michael Cunningham's film adaptation of Susan Minot's novel "Evening"

Co-starred with Judi Dench in the BBC One series "Cranford" (aired on PBS in the US)

Returned to London's West End to play Mrs Rafi in Edward Bond's "The Sea"