Trained at the East 15 Acting School in the early '60s.
Has two sons from her first marriage: Daniel (b.1968) and Matthew (b.1970).
Is fluent in French and Spanish.
One of her best known and longest-running roles was that of neurotic and gossipy hospital administrator Joyce Watson in the ITV comedy series Surgical Spirit (1989), which she has described as one of her most favourite jobs.