[1][2][3] In 2014, at the age of 93, Towner returned to screen acting for a 13-episode role as Edna on Ricky Gervais' television series, Derek, becoming one of the oldest working actresses in the United Kingdom.
[1][2] She was initially cast in bit parts in British films during the 1930s and 1940s, including Under Your Hat (1940), in which she played a tall girl opposite Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert.
[1] Shortly after the show's cancellation, she then joined the Entertainments National Service Association's (ENSA) touring stage production of "The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse" during World War II, where she met her future husband, actor Raymond Francis.
[1][2] In 1997, Towner was invited to Bray Studios near Maidenhead to meet with director George Lucas about a potential role in his forthcoming Star Wars prequel, which was in pre-production.
[1][2] Despite that, Towner was cast in a small, but important, role as Jira, a market vendor who befriends a young Anakin Skywalker, in Lucas' Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, released in 1999.