She became internationally recognised in the 1980s from the Gold Blend couple television advertisements for Nescafé instant coffee, (Taster's Choice in the United States) alongside actor Anthony Head.
[7] She next worked with John Stride in the final series of Yorkshire Television's The Main Chance, playing the Nordic Inge Lindstrom.
[6] In 1977, Maughan joined the cast of Franco Zeffirelli's Filumena,[6] starring Joan Plowright and Colin Blakely in London's West End, where she met her future husband, actor Trevor Eve.
[8] From 1987 to 1998, while running the internationally successful Gold Blend couple television advertisements for Nescafé, (Taster's Choice in the United States) alongside actor Anthony Head,[5] she starred in episodes of Inspector Morse,[8] Hannay,[8] and Murder, She Wrote.
[8] Onstage, she played Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday,[6] and Nora in A Doll's House at Chichester Festival Theatre in 1993.
[5] She played Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Anna Howard Shaw in Paula Wagner's production of Out of Our Father's House at Hollywood's Fountainhead Theatre.
[6] In September 2014, Maughan starred in the British premiere of Neil LaBute's well received play Autobahn at the King's Head Theatre in Islington.