Muriel Rose Romanes MBE (born 18 March 1946)[1] is a Scottish former theatre, television and film actress and award-winning stage director.
She is best known as a cast regular in the Scottish Television drama Take the High Road; and as the artistic director of the Stellar Quines Theatre Company in Edinburgh.
[3] In 1980, she joined the cast of Take the High Road and, until 1989, played the part of Alice Taylor (née McEwan), one of the programme's longest-running characters.
[8] Romanes was a frequent visiting lecturer and director at the Drama School of Edinburgh’s Queen Margaret University where she directed a number of productions.
Other theatre work includes touring with Jimmy Logan in For Love or Money: An Ideal Husband (Perth Rep), Schellenbreck (Netherbow), Deacon Brodie, Othersise Engaged, Dr. Angelus, The Tempest, Blythe Spirit, A View from the Bridge and The Marriage of Figaro (Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh), We, Charles II and The Archive of Countess D. (Fifth Estate).