✦Was the first choice for the role of Rita Skeeter in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (2005), but turned it down to play Jane Bennett in "Pride and Prejudice" (2005) instead.
✦Studied under both Whitbread prize-winning poet Bernard O'Donoghue and eminent post-colonial theorist Robert J.C. Young during her years at Oxford University's Wadham College.
✦Is 12 years and 5 months younger than Halle Berry when filming "Die Another Day" (2002), thus they made the greatest age difference between two Bond girls in one film since Alison Doody and Grace Jones in "A View to a Kill" (1985).
✦Was included in a film entitled "Castle of Lives" which has been put on hold for years.