[1][2] The Encyclopaedia of British Film noted, "she never played leads, but, with long rep and TV experience (from 1949), she was noticeable in all she did.

[3] She began acting with Manchester Repertory in 1938, and studied with Michel Saint-Denis at the London Theatre Studio in 1939.

She appeared in the West End in Michael Clayton Hutton's Power Without Glory, Seán O'Casey's Red Roses for Me, Noël Coward's Peace in Our Time, John Griffith Bowen's After the Rain (also on Broadway),[1] Doris Lessing's Play with a Tiger[4] and plays such as Little Boxes and Where's Tedd.

[7] She made over 500 television appearances, including a Play for Today, "O Fat White Woman" (1971),[8] adapted by William Trevor from his own short story, and Ken Russell's television film Song of Summer (1968), in which she played Jelka Delius, the long-suffering wife of the composer Frederick Delius.

[10] In the 1970s British police drama The Sweeney, episode Big Spender, she appeared as Edith Wardle the wife of a dishonest employee of a car park company who becomes involved in an elaborate fraud.