She first earned notice for her work in 200 Cigarettes (1999), a film that cast her as a virgin out on a date with a caddish young man whose interest in her is limited solely to her virginity.
In 1653, frustrated with lack of progress, he dissolved the rump of the Long Parliament and, after the failure of his Puritan convention made himself lord protector.
Poor Jo tried desperately to be good, but her bosom enemy was always ready to flame up and defeat her, and it took years of patient effort to subdue it.