She was the second Scottish-born actress (after Deborah Kerr) to be nominated for an Academy Award, for her role in the 1960 film Sons and Lovers.

[3] Known for her beauty, Ure began performing on the London stage and quickly developed a reputation for her abilities as a dramatic actress.

Ure first appeared on screen in Storm Over The Nile (1955) playing the love interest of hero Anthony Steel.

She and Osborne married and in 1958, she was in the Broadway production of Look Back in Anger and earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Dramatic Actress.

After doing The Lady's Not for Burning (1958) on British TV she transferred her fragile, captivating portrayal of "Alison Porter" from stage to screen in the 1959 film adaptation of Look Back in Anger.

[6] In 1963, after an absence of three years, she returned to film with a performance in the sci-fi drama The Mind Benders, playing the wife of Dirk Bogarde.

[12] In 1956, Ure began an affair with married playwright John Osborne while working on the initial production of his play Look Back in Anger.

[16] On Wednesday 2 April 1975, she appeared on the London stage with Honor Blackman, Ronald Hines and Brian Blessed in an adaptation of the teleplay The Exorcism by Don Taylor and "within hours of a triumphant opening [night]"[17] was found dead, aged 42, from an accidental overdose of alcohol and barbiturates.