In the late 1980s, along with fellow Brit performers Jenny Agutter, Ian McKellen, Timothy Dalton and Olivia Hussey, she spent time volunteering teaching Shakespeare to children at a school in Watts, Los Angeles.
I'm not sure how other people of my generation look back on that time
(when she acted in To Sir, with Love (1967)), but since I trained at a professional
stage school, if you took yourself too seriously, or started to think
you were better than anybody else, you just got the shit beaten out of
you.
