She is best known for her role as Sister Winifred in the period drama series Call the Midwife.
[3] Yeates was born and raised in Bournemouth, Dorset, and practised ballet dancing as a child.
In 2006, she earned a degree in acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
She began her career on the stage, earning critical praise for her roles in Noël Coward's Private Lives, in the Rookery Nook and in Michael McClure's The Beard.
[4] She became engaged to musician Paul Housden in 2016 in South Africa, during filming for the Call the Midwife Christmas special.