Her most noted roles were as Toots in Youth's the season in 1932 by Mary Manning; Laura in a production of Carmilla in 1932, based on the novella by Sheridan Le Fanu; Ophelia in 1932; and Cicely in The Importance of Being Earnest in 1933.

Touring with the Gate company in 1935, she played Stella in its production of Lord Longford's Yahoo performed in the Westminster Theatre, London.

Disappointed with the parts she was getting at the Gate after that and much to the annoyance of Micheál Mac Liammóir and Hilton Edwards, she joined Lord Longford's first provincial tour in 1937.

Following her appearance as Baby Furze in the 1938 production of Spring meeting by Molly Keane and John Perry, she was nominated as "Star of the Future" by the Daily Mail.

She acted alongside Alec Guinness and Peggy Ashcroft in 1940 in Clemence Dane's Cousin Muriel at the Globe Theatre, directed by John Gielgud.

The family moved to the United States in November 1948, where she had the lead role in Shaw's Candida at Amherst College, Massachusetts in 1950.