 Taking a very early interest in acting she enrolled in drama classes at the Gaiety School of Acting when it opened in Dublin in the late 1980s.Here she was scouted by Bond movies casting director Debbie McWilliams and eventually cast in the role of Geraldine Quinton in "Fools of Fortune" opposite Julie Christie, Iain Glen and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.A couple of years later, following two final rounds of casting at London's Pinewood Studios she narrowly lost out on the role of Mary Lennox in Warner Bros' "The Secret Garden", directed by Agnieszka Holland.