Career
She was mainly known as a child actor. Her best-known role was as Billie in Here Come the Double Deckers (1970-1971). Other roles included Phyllis in a television version of The Railway Children (1968), Janey in The Witch"s Daughter (1971), and Callie in Follyfoot (1971-1973).
She was less prominent as an adult, although she remained working being cast in roles such as Jinny Carter in series 1 of Poldark (1975), Ravella in the first episode of Blake"s 7 (1978), and Maureen Galbraith in the British Broadcasting Corporation television series County Hall (1982).
In the 1990s she found that work dried up and began working as a script reader. In 1992 she returned to complete her education at Kingston University.
After a period at the Drama and Theatre department at the Royal Holloway, University of London she is now Professor of Women"s Performance Histories at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Bailey and Jacky Bratton live in West Sussex.
