Great-grandfather Herbert Henry Asquith was prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916.
Great-uncle Anthony Asquith was a renowned film director and screenwriter (Pygmalion, The Importance of Being Earnest).
As a teenager, used money she won in a poetry contest to buy an ad in an actors' directory to try to get acting jobs.
Her father was left half-paralyzed from a stroke due to complications from surgery; she studied his body language for her performance as a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease in The Theory of Flight.
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