From 12 she attended Godolphin & Latymer School in London where she
passed her 9 GCSEs with A* and A grades in between working for several
terms away from school on the Famous Five. From there she went to 6th
form college where she got 3 grade A levels. Her parents are both
freelance broadcasters and she has two cousins who are young film
directors - one of them the promising Serbian director Stevan Filipovic.