She changed her professional name to Kate Woodville in 1967 upon moving to the U.S., where she eventually became a life member of the Actors Studio.

[3] She was known for her appearances in Z-Cars, The Avengers, Danger Man, Mission: Impossible, It Takes a Thief, Mannix, The Rockford Files, Days of Our Lives and Eight Is Enough.

In the original Star Trek series, she played Natira in the episode "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" (1968).

She guest-starred as Nedra in Season 2 Episode 12 of Kung Fu (1974), entitled "The Gunman".

Woodville married three times: first to Avengers star Patrick Macnee and then to Jerrold Freedman, an American film and television director and novelist.