Tara has a fluffy white dog (a Coton de Tulear) called Donovan.
A few days after her West End debut in Our Song, Tara was mugged in a London street by a man with a knife.
Tara won a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award (Best Supporting Actress) for the part of Ophelia in a 1995 production of Hamlet. The Prince of Denmark was played by Ralph Fiennes.
Her first screen role was as Nancy Doyle in the movie Hear My Song (1991), but her first appearance was in the tv movie The Black Candle, filmed later the same year but released first.
Tara is half Irish (on her mother's side) and half Italian (on her father's).
Tara's great-aunt Geraldine Fitzgerald was an Irish movie star from the 1930s, and Geraldine's son Michael Lindsay-Hogg is a well-known film director.
She suffers from acrophobia - the fear of heights.
Tara's step-father was the late Norman Rodway (1929-2001), an English actor.
Her height is 5 ft 5 inches (or 1.65 metres).
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