Lives in Dulwich, South London with her husband Jon Connerty and son Otis.
Her Coronation Street (1960) character Tracy Barlow became the 18th woman on the soap opera to give birth. Tracy had a daughter Amy (played originally by Holly Bower and later Elle Mulvaney), born on 9 February 2004.
Has announced her engagement to boyfriend Jon Connerty (February 2007).
She and Jon Connerty married at St. Oswald's Church in the village of Thornton-in-Lonsdale, North Yorkshire.