During the Second World War, Le Beau was separated from her parents; as she was Jewish, and was held in a concentration camp in southern France.

Le Beau escaped from Camp DeGurs and was helped by a family who hid her from the Nazis.

[2] As an actress her television appearances include The Benny Hill Show,[3] Mrs Thursday, The Prisoner, Call My Bluff and The Golden Shot.

On radio, Le Beau was a regular on the BBC World Service programme Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?, a version of Twenty Questions.

Le Beau worked on a programme for women on radio and wrote a book entitled Help Yourself to Happiness (ISBN 0953421600), and also lectured on her experience of The Holocaust.