She studied speech and drama under Elsie Fogerty at the Central School of Speech and Drama, then based at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

[3] She led a long stage, film and television career as a character actress, making her professional debut in Jonah and the Whale at London's Westminster Theatre in 1932.

As his film career blossomed, the marriage faltered, and the couple divorced in 1948.

They had a son, Jamie, and a daughter, the theatrical agent Lindsey Granger, who died in 2011.

She appeared with the National Theatre in 1977, playing roles in The Madras House and Don Juan Comes Back from the War, and in 1983 was in the thriller Underground in Toronto and at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London.