She was invited to join the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon in England, and has played Gertrude to Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet in the West End in London.
In 1991, she was in the company that performed Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa, on Broadway in New York City, about the sad lives of a group of sisters in pre-war rural Ireland.
[2] She has appeared in such television plays and series, as Michael Palin's wife in GBH and in New Tricks, Midsomer Murders, and Sex, the City and Me.
On television, she has appeared in Waking the Dead, Foyle's War, Killer, Midsomer Murders, New Tricks, and the 1960s RTÉ drama series, Tolka Row.
[citation needed] In 2009, she joined the cast of the British television drama series Coronation Street as the mother of Michelle Connor (Kym Marsh).