She appears to have been more of a show person than an actor as she was known for her performances on stilts and as a rope dancer.

She was first known as an actor when she played a chimpanzee when she appeared in a pantomime titled La Perouse, or, The Desolate Island at the English Opera House.

Her uncle James William Wallack was working as the stage manager at Drury Lane and she was there from 1826 to 1828 where she took to appearing in more pantomime or stereotype roles such as a walking lady.

The Queen's Theatre opened in 1867 and her husband became its actor-manager, forming a new company which included Charles Wyndham, Henry Irving, J. L. Toole, Lionel Brough, Ellen Terry, and Henrietta Hodson.

[3] Her best part ever was considered to be playing Mrs Hector Sternhold in Still Waters Run Deep.