Background
She was born in Plymouth, Devon.
She was born in Plymouth, Devon.
As an actress she had a long and distinguished career on the stage, especially in classical roles, before television where she perhaps was best known to the general public in latter years as Richard"s elderly mother Mrs Polouvicka in To the Manor Born. She died in 1983 in Bristol, aged 78.
During the 1950s and 1960s she was a member of the teaching staff at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.