[2] While teaching English and drama at a state secondary school for girls at Cambridge, she acted with the university's dramatic society's productions with roles ranging from Desdemona in Othello at the ADC Theatre in 1962[3] to Maisie King in Expresso Bongo.

"[4] In radio comedy, she was a regular performer in the BBC's I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (with John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden and David Hatch).

In 1978, she appeared in the comedy drama The Unvarnished Truth at London's Phoenix Theatre with Royce Ryton, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden.

Among her television roles, she played Mrs Bardell in The Pickwick Papers (1985), Anne Stanhope in The Six Wives of Henry VIII and had a semi-regular part in Grange Hill in the 1980s as the mother of regular character Roland Browning.

[9] As of 2007, she lived in a cottage near Bury St Edmunds, but towards the end of her life, she resided at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in London, where she died on 29 January 2022 at the age of 81.