Career
Rye was casting agent for the company H. M. Tennent. She discovered a number of talents who became big names, including Richard Burton, later one of Rye"s lodgers. She also helped Kenneth More and Honor Blackman.
Nigel Hawthorne said of her: "How daunting it was to hear her voice coming from a darkened auditorium during auditions." Her theatrical credits as director included Private Lives, Edward, My Son and The Little Hut.
Her marriages to the actor Roland Culver and Doctor John Janvrin were dissolved. She died in Spain where she had spent much of her life.
