- 2009: Appeared opposite Steve Martin in "Pink Panther 2"
- 2008: Featured in the David Mamet directed, "Redbelt"
- 2008: Co-starred in "Chaos Theory" with Ryan Reynolds and Stuart Townsend
- 2007: Played the title character's (Ryan Gosling) sister-law in "Lars and the Real Girl"
- 2007: Appeared in three episodes of NBC's "30 Rock" as a love interest of Alec Baldwin's character Jack Donaghy
- 2006: Cast in "The Pink Panther" as the love interest of Inspector Clouseau (Steve Martin)
- 2005: Played the oblivious spouse of an adulterous Jonathan Rhys Meyers in Woody Allen's "Match Point"
- 2004: Featured in "Young Adam" opposite Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton
- 2003: Joined an ensemble cast in Stephen Fry's "Bright Young Things"
- 2001: Changed her prim image in favor of a more provocative one when she appeared full-frontally nude in "Lovely and Amazing"
- 2000: Featured in Kenneth Branagh's musical adaptation of "Love's Labour's Lost"
- 2000: Played Bruce Willis' love interest in Disney's "The Kid"
- 2000: Cast as Angelina, the star of the film-within-a-film, in "Scream 3"
- 1999: Played Miss Flynn in the TV mini-series "Cider with Rosie" (PBS); adapted for television by her father, John Mortimer
- 1999: Played Esther in the American TV mini-series "Noah's Ark" (NBC)
- 1999: Had a small but pivotal role, opposite Hugh Grant in "Notting Hill"
- 1998: Appeared as Kat Ashley in Shekhar Kapur's Oscar-nominated epic "Elizabeth"
- 1996: Cast in the Irish comedy "The Last of the High Kings" (released direct-to-video in the USA as "Summer Fling")
- 1996: First film role, playing Val Kilmer's wife in "The Ghost and the Darkness"
- 1995: TV debut in an adaptation of Dame Catherine Cookson's "The Glass Virgin"
- Performed in several plays while studying at Oxford University
- Acted in "The Lights" at London's Royal Court Theatre and "The Merchant of Venice" at Edinburgh's Lyceum Theatre




