Performed in several plays while studying at Oxford University

Acted in "The Lights" at London's Royal Court Theatre and "The Merchant of Venice" at Edinburgh's Lyceum Theatre

TV debut in an adaptation of Dame Catherine Cookson's "The Glass Virgin"

First film role, playing Val Kilmer's wife in "The Ghost and the Darkness"

Cast in the Irish comedy "The Last of the High Kings" (released direct-to-video in the USA as "Summer Fling")

Appeared as Kat Ashley in Shekhar Kapur's Oscar-nominated epic "Elizabeth"

Played Miss Flynn in the TV mini-series "Cider with Rosie" (PBS); adapted for television by her father, John Mortimer

Had a small but pivotal role, opposite Hugh Grant in "Notting Hill"

Played Esther in the American TV mini-series "Noah's Ark" (NBC)

Cast as Angelina, the star of the film-within-a-film, in "Scream 3"

Featured in Kenneth Branagh's musical adaptation of "Love's Labour's Lost"

Played Bruce Willis' love interest in Disney's "The Kid"

Changed her prim image in favor of a more provocative one when she appeared full-frontally nude in "Lovely and Amazing"

Joined an ensemble cast in Stephen Fry's "Bright Young Things"

Featured in "Young Adam" opposite Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton

Played the oblivious spouse of an adulterous Jonathan Rhys Meyers in Woody Allen's "Match Point"

Cast in "The Pink Panther" as the love interest of Inspector Clouseau (Steve Martin)

Appeared in three episodes of NBC's "30 Rock" as a love interest of Alec Baldwin's character Jack Donaghy

Played the title character's (Ryan Gosling) sister-law in "Lars and the Real Girl"

Co-starred in "Chaos Theory" with Ryan Reynolds and Stuart Townsend

Featured in the David Mamet directed, "Redbelt"