Went to the United States with the Footlights stage show "Cambridge
Circus" in 1964, and appeared on the "Ed Sullivan Show".
Her Emmerdale Farm (1972) character Peggy Skilbeck spoke the very first line in the first episode of the soap opera. Peggy was also the first woman to give birth: she had twins Sam and Sally (played by unknown children), born on 10 April 1973.
Trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and gained her Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music (LRAM).