Subsequent major roles on TV include Linda Harvey in Families and Michelle Thorn in Footballers' Wives: Extra Time.

The Cheshire-born singer-actress appeared in a number of regional and touring productions of musicals, where her roles included: April in Hot Shoe Shuffle, Julie Johnston in Bad Girls: The Musical and Phyllis Rogers Stone in Follies, and most recently Chitty Chitty Bang Bang amongst other numerous West End concert performances including Living on an Island at The Talk of London.

[citation needed] Plowright made her West End theatre debut in 1999, originating the role of Tanya in the hit musical Mamma Mia!.

Due to ill health, Plowright withdrew from the production, and was replaced by Harriet Thorpe on 22 April 2013.

[citation needed] Plowright died in Duderstadt, Germany, of pancreatic cancer,[2] on 1 March 2016, aged 59.