- She beat out Maryam d'Abo for the role of Pola in the James Bond film A View to a Kill (1985). Two years later, Maryam landed the main Bond girl role in The Living Daylights (1987).
- She had her long, waist-length brown hair dyed chestnut-blonde for the title role in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972).
- Semi-retired from acting after the birth of her daughter Lucy. Fullerton now lives in an old Gloucestershire vicarage with her husband, Neil, and their two children. Fiona currently sells real estate and has published several books on the subject. (December 2006)
- She had a full season run at the London Palladium in Rodger and Hammerstein's Cinderella in the title role of Cinderella.
- After living with her Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) co-stars for nine months, she became friends with her co-star and onscreen sister Lynne Frederick. They remained friendly with each other until Frederick's death in 1994.
- Originally aspired to become a ballet dancer but abandoned that aspiration at the age of 14 to be an actress due to the physically demanding setbacks of being a dancer required.
- Stepmother of James Shackell; mother of his half-sister Lucy (b. 1995).
- Listed Ann-Margret and Liza Minnelli as her idols.
- American actress Kirsten Dunst bears a strong resemblance to her. Coincidentally, they both have played the Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov on film.
- As a real-life military brat (her father was a British army colonel), Fullerton was educated at boarding school starting from age 9.
- After Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972), she took a brief hiatus from acting to give herself time to mature from a child actress to more adult roles. She came back to Hollywood in 1975 with her long waist length hair cut short, and she landed a reoccurring role on the BBC series Angels (1975).
- Fiona Fullerton, Claudia Cardinale ,Glynis Barber, Moira Lister, Stephanie Beacham Patrick Allen and Sid James were all born in Africa.
- She was picked from a photograph, taken by Lord Snowden, for the film "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".
- She began training to be a classical ballet dancer at the age of 3.
- Coming from an army background meant that her early years were spent travelling around.
- Started acting at 11, First marriage at19.
- Was considered for the role of Jessica 6 in the movie "Logan's Run", but lost out to Jenny Agutter.
- While at school she was picked for the film Run Wild Run Free, after which she made two more films by which time she was too old for playing young girls and too young for playing older girls so she decided to retire from acting and got a job as a receptionist at a London store. then at 18 she was picked for the BBC tv series 'Angels ' then 'The Charmer'.
- Portrayed the wife of Edward Fox in "Shaka Zulu"; their real-life age difference is 19 years. Four years prior, she had starred in the West End production of "Camelot", portraying Queen Guinevere to Richard Harris's King Arthur; Harris was 26 years her senior.
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