Background
Shotter was born in London, the daughter of Frederick Ernest and Harriet Payne Shotter.
Shotter was born in London, the daughter of Frederick Ernest and Harriet Payne Shotter.
She was the sister of actress Winifred Shotter. By 1926 she was a chorus dancer, appearing in The Midnight Follies a Dinner, Dancing and Review by A. P. Herbert, choreographed by Penelope Spencer. Shotter married firstly Adney Gibbons, son of Sir Walter Gibbons, in 1928.