From 12 she attended Godolphin & Latymer School in London where she passed her 8 GCSEs with A* and A grades in between working for several terms away from school on the Famous Five. From there she went to 6th form college where she got 3 A grade A levels. Her parents are both freelance broadcasters and she has 2 cousins who are young film directors - one of them the promising Serbian director Stevan Filipovic.