It was the first town entered by the German Army in World War I. Hyland began acting after consulting a seer who foretold great success for the diminutive English girl.

In 1914 she married Owen Grant Evan-Thomas (1861–1942),[2] and on sailing to the United States in 1916 he was named as her next-of-kin.

According to an interview in the magazine The Red Letter, the first film she appeared in was The Love of an Actress in 1914, in which she is thrown into the Thames.

Among her many appearances are roles in The Honeypot (1920), Faith (1920), Love Maggy (1921), Shifting Sands (1923), and Forbidden Cargoes (1925).

Black Shadows was a 1920 Fox Film feature in which Peggy portrayed Marjorie Langdon.

Hyland married Universal film producer Fred LeRoy Granville in Marylebone in London in March 1923.