Wissenswertes

Leading ingénue at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the late 70s (Perdita, Cordelia, Viola), then left to portray Guinevere in Excalibur (1981) and pursue a film career.

Brought up by her English mother and aunts in West London, after her Italian father abandoned the family.

Although she played Kenneth Branagh's mother in Mary Shelleys Frankenstein (1994), she is only eight years his senior in real life.

Cherie played Hedvig in The Wild Duck and Alice in Alice in Wonderland on BBC radio while still a pupil at the Arts Educational School in Hyde Park.

Has one daughter with film director Roland Joffé, Nathalie Lunghi (full name Nathalie Kathleen Lunghi-Joffé), born 26 August 1986.

Lived in the Kensington district of London where her mother ran a boarding house.

She once starred in shampoo commercials.

As of late 1986 she was living with film director Roland Joffe in Chelsea.

She's performed at the Stratford and National Theatres.