Acting debut Liverpool Repertory, 1938
Also played in two different BBC-TV versions of "The Franchise Affair", in the first playing the daughter and in the second playing the mother.
Broadway debut 1950
Had two children by her second husband, actor Peter Ashmore: Jonathan Felix (born April 16, 1948) and Catherine (born June 12, 1952).
Mother of Jonathan Ashmore.
Played the role of Madame Defarge in both the 1958 film of "A Tale Of Two Cities" and a later BBC-TV version.
Trained Royal Academy of Music