After attending drama school she featured in television roles, mainly playing demure young women in action series such as The Buccaneers and The Adventures of Robin Hood.

Her film debut was a minor role for director Roy Boulting in Happy Is the Bride (1957), and then began switching between the theatre and the screen.

She made an impact on the stage in Ronald Duncan's The Catalyst, a play that initially the Lord Chamberlain's office had found troubling.

Interlude was released after she died, and she won a posthumous National Board of Review award and a BAFTA nomination for her work in the film.

Following the shooting of Interlude in the summer of 1967, she suffered a severe nervous breakdown and was hospitalised at Stoke Mandeville Hospital for six weeks.