"Miss Caruso", the character she played in the opening of Live and Let Die (1973), was not credited by name in the films credits. Instead she was credited as "Beautiful Girl".
Her appearance in the episode, Whip Hand (2011), of the daytime BBC1 series Doctors (2000), broadcast on 15 September 2011, marked her triumphant return to acting after her many years absence from the profession.
She was in the initial version of the film, Cry of the Penguins (1971), but was cut out along with the majority of the cast when the director decided to re-edit it.
She was offered a role in Carry on Abroad (1972) but had to turn it down due to other commitments.
Was a favourite subject of cartoonist J Edward Oliver, who drew a whole strip about her in Disc in the 1970s.
She married Doctor Kidd and they had two daughters who took after their mother and became actresses.
Lived in Washington Village in County Durham in the early 50's where she ran the village drama group one of whose members was Colin Blakely.