Frances de la Tour of Fire" (2005) and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1" (2010). Other television roles include Emma Porlock in the Dennis Potter serial "Cold Lazarus" (1996), Headmistress Margaret Baron in BBC sitcom "Big School" and Violet Crosby in the sitcom "Vicious". De la Tour was born in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, to Moyra (née Fessas) and Charles de la Tour (1909–1982). The name was also spelt De Lautour, and it was in this form that her birth was registered in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, in the third quarter of 1944. She has French, Greek, and Irish ancestry. She was educated at
Victor de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg ("later styled" marquise de La Tour-Maubourg), who predeceased him on 17 July 1844. His elder brother, Charles-César de Faÿ de La Tour-Maubourg was also a French Army general, and his younger brother, Juste-Charles de Faÿ de La Tour-Maubourg was married to Anastasie de La Fayette (1777–1863). At the end of 1799 de Faÿ returned to France and was posted to Egypt by the First Consul. There he served as "Aide-de-Camp" to General Kléber, who both received head wounds at Alexandria caused by an incendiary-device, 13 March 1801. After Kléber's assassination he was appointed AdC to General Menou. De Faÿ was