[3][4][5] She had her drama training in Paris before her first appearance which was at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in The Jew of Malta in 1925.

[6] The following year she "a wife" was in Escape by John Galsworthy in London's West End.

[6] She married the tennis star Bunny Austin in 1931, whom she met on a cruise liner while travelling to the US to appear in a stage production of Frank Vosper's Murder on the Second Floor, opposite her close friend Laurence Olivier.

Austin played tennis with Charlie Chaplin, was a friend of Daphne du Maurier and met both Queen Mary and President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

In her later years, she joined her husband with involvement in the Oxford Group,[6] performing in several films and theatrical productions around the world to benefit the cause.