Career
After training in acting and dancing, she took a part as a school girl in STV"s production of The Prime of Mission Jean Brodie where she was credited as Dory Hepburn. Unlike most of the cast, who were sourced from the Glasgow Youth Theatre, Hepburn was spotted by Bill Forsyth dancing in a television commercial for a Scottish department store. The film"s cast reunited for the 30th anniversary of its release in 2010, and a clip from the film featuring Hepburn was part of the opening ceremony from the London 2012 Summer Olympics.
She was offered various roles after the success of Gregory"s Girl, including the female lead opposite Oliver Reed in Castaway (played by Amanda Donohoe), and the lead in Bolero (played by Bo Derek), she turned them down because of the required level of nudity and sexual content, and having to work away from her Scottish home.
She started a career in television, appearing in the Glasgow set series Maggie, and presenting lieutenant"s a Knockout. After moving south to live in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire with her then fiancé Brian Ruane a former football player with Motherwell, she took a role in the soap opera Crossroads for three years as the receptionist Anne-Marie Wade.