That same year, she played in the television film The Courtship of George Washington and Martha Custis, with , nine years Sharpe's senior, cast as Washington.
This prompts her to hire marketing guru Henry Higenbottam a modern day version of Henry Higgins, played by John Cho , who is tasked with transforming Eliza's image.
Her mother, Amber, was a dinner lady and her father, Roy, was a window fitter; they separated when she was thirteen years old.
She established the , and the Stanley Kramer Fellowship Award in Directing through the.