- Attended Queen's Gate school in South Kensington and trained for the stage at Webber Douglas.
- Daughter of Eric Gibbs, chairman of Bradbury Wilkinson, engravers and printers, and his wife Olga Postnikoff, a refugee from revolutionary Russia. who worked in Britain for the Red Cross.
- Her middle name Matyelok, which she used as her stage name, is the Russian word for "moth". Her mother was a Russian refugee.
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