Kazia spent her childhood in the Roundhay district of Leeds and received her formal education at Notre Dame High School.
She subsequently trained in acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, where she was awarded the Wilfred Foulis prize.
A Granada Television agent saw her perform on stage in Manchester after which she was cast as Linda Jackson in the soap opera Coronation Street in 1987.
[3] She appeared in a bit part as a prostitute in the American World War II television film The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988).
She also appeared as a semi-regular character Deputy Assistant Commissioner Georgia Hobbs in The Bill, and in numerous other television productions, including the part of Hazel Wilding in a return to the soap opera Coronation Street in 2002.