British leading actress, best known for her performances on screen in the title role of
The Story of Esther Costello (1957) (as a deaf-mute) and in
Room at the Top (1958). Started in repertory theatre, making her debut in a 1955 production of "The Love Match". Prolific during the 1970's, playing leads at the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester in classical plays by Shakespeare, Pinter, Ibsen, Rattigan, Strindberg and Dostoevsky.