- She was made an OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to drama and charitable services.
- Mother of Emma Thompson and Sophie Thompson.
- Plays together with her daughter Emma Thompson in Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing (1993) and Peter's Friends (1992) as well as in Alan Rickman's The Winter Guest (1997) _ and (without her daughter) in his A Little Chaos (2014). They also played together in the Harry Potter Series, and in Sense and Sensibility.
- She is grandmother to Emma Thompson's daughter, Gaia Romilly Wise. She is also grandmother to Sophie Thompson's sons, Ernest Lumsden (born in 1997), and Walter Eric Lumsden (born in 2000).
- Former mother-in-law of Kenneth Branagh and Richard Lumsden.
- Mother-in-law of Greg Wise.
- She met Magic Roundabout creator Eric Thompson when they were drama students and married when she was 23 and had 2 daughters Emma and Sophie.
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