- Changed her name legally from Faye to her middle name Kierston by deed poll in 2006.
- Lived in New York from 1997 until 2000, studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute.
- Prior to landing her breakthrough role in It's a Free World... (2007) Kierston worked as a beautician, a call centre worker and as a legal secretary.
- Trained at the Italia Conti Theatre School on weekends as a teenager, having been inspired to become an actress after reading an article on Jodie Foster.
- Revealed that she had suffered a miscarriage at 4 months pregnant in early 2013 on the set of EastEnders (1985) (25 November 2013).
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