Emma was born Emma Gwynedd Mary Chambers born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire in 1964 to John, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, and Noelle (nee Strange). The family moved around and, while attending St Swithun's school, Winchester, Chambers acted in Winchester college productions - saying she"enjoyed showing off" - and played lacrosse for Hampshire. Her parents eventually split up and she trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, where the former EastEnders actor Ross Kemp was one of her contemporaries.　　Her sister, Sarah Doukas, and brother, Simon, went on to run Storm Model Management, which discovered Kate Moss at the age of 14.　　Chambers who suffered from asthma, attacks of which were often brought on by an acute allergy to animals withdrew largely but not entirely from public life after the final episode of The Vicar of Dibley (1994) in 2007, which was also to remain her final television role. On the evening of 21st February 2018 Chambers suffered a heart attack and died at her home in Lymington, Hampshire, England at the age of just 53. Her death was announced three days later by her agent John Grant.　　Chambers was survived by her husband, the actor Ian Dunn, whom she married in 1991, and by her siblings.　　Daughter of John Chambers (born John S. W. Chambers 1926) and Noelle Chambers (born Noelle Gwynedd Strange 1925, died 26 April 2016) who married in 1950.　　Suffered from asthma and a severe allergy to animals which caused her death from heart attack on February 21, 2018, less than three weeks away from what would have been her 54th birthday on March 11.