Finding a love for dance as a young girl, Holland trained as a dancer at the London Cone Ripman (now ArtsEd) and enjoyed success throughout her career on stage.

Having always enjoyed acting in addition to dance, Holland also appeared in many theatre productions, later turning her attentions to television, playing the recurring role of Sarah Maynard in Crossroads from 1964 to 1970.

[1] In the late 1960s she also received critical acclaim for her performance as Miss Amelia in the European premiere of The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, alongside Skip Martin.

in the 1980s, Holland received letters from British troops in the Falklands, with the BBC press office stating that she had become a "Forces' sweetheart", although she claimed this was a "slight exaggeration" and that it "just snowballed".

came into production, Holland was suffering from serious arthritis in her hip, a common plight for dancers, and the show's choreographer noted how she would arrive for rehearsals "limping badly" but during filming she "hid it very well".

Prior to Hi-De-Hi!, Holland appeared in Tales of the Unexpected in the episode named "The Stinker", and Stig of the Dump as Mrs Fawkham-Greene.

Holland lived quietly in the village of Godstone, Surrey, where she died at home on 24 January 2009 at the age of 78 after contracting bronchial pneumonia.