She has played the role continuously since 1957, making her the world's longest serving actor in a soap opera in any medium (radio, television or internet).
[3] Her family moved to Campion Street in the New Zealand part of the city, where she attended Ashgate Infants School on Ashbourne Road.
[4] Greene began working as a ward orderly at the Derbyshire Children's Hospital and in the sheet metal factory of Hawk Industries, but noticed her father crying at a theatre performance.
[5] During a microphone technique class, a teacher told her that she would never be on television due to sounding like a "fairy in hockey boots".
She recalled that on her second day, she took stage directions too far and threw a glass of water over Norman Painting, who portrayed Phil Archer, and nearly electrocuted him.