The couple went through a bad patch, that led to a court order; they briefly separated but later reconciled.
She could not have wished for a more eloquent statement of intent than her breakthrough performance as the bolshy, budding writer in Gillian Armstrong's 1979.
She then played a terrorist in the British film 1982.
In film, she continued to earn good notices for her supporting roles in 2003 , as a working-class mother, and in the films 2006 and.