Personal Life
In 1992, she married Colin David Englert, an Australian who worked as a second unit director on The Piano; he is also a television producer, and leads group work at the Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney, Australia with fathers who suffer postnatal depression (PND). Their first child, a son named Jasper, was born in 1993 but lived for only 12 days. Their daughter, actress Alice Englert, was born in 1994. They divorced in 2001.
Campion currently resides in Australia.
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