[3] Travers was born in Houghton-le-Spring, County Durham, the daughter of Florence (née Wheatley) and William Halton Lindon-Travers.

She made her West End debut the following year in Ivor Novello's Murder in Mayfair and appeared in her first film, Children of the Fog in 1935.

She also appeared in Carol Reed's Bank Holiday (1938) and The Stars Look Down (1940), as well as The Ghost Train (1941), Quartet (1948) and The Bad Lord Byron (1949).

In the forties she played Miss Blandish in both the well received 1942 stage adaptation in which she starred with Robert Newton which had 203 performances at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London and the widely panned 1948 film version of James Hadley Chase's 1939 novel No Orchids for Miss Blandish (which Travers felt to have been her best film).

[8] She mostly retired from acting in 1948, after her second marriage (although she continued to make occasional TV appearances), and in 1999, she took part in the television programme Reputations: Alfred Hitchcock, paying tribute to the man who had directed her sixty years earlier.