Cronin went to secondary school in Forest Gate, obtained a degree at Nene College Northampton, then trained as an actress at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
[5] She has since written other productions, including: Ties That Bind, Ten Days That Shook Belfast and Shrieking Sisters: The History Of Ireland’s Suffragist Movement (co-written with Carol Moor).
[2] Cronin was then cast in the BBC daytime medical soap opera Doctors as practice manager Kate McGuire.
[1] She opted to leave the series in 2004, later making a brief appearance in 2006 to aid the exit of her onscreen husband, Mac McGuire (Christopher Timothy).
[8] Cronin's second one-woman show, Greenstick Boy, directed by Sarah Tipple, previewed at the Brian Friel Theatre in March 2008, as well as the Assembly Rooms at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2008.