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She studied Welsh and Drama at Aberystwyth University and graduated in 1984.
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She was raised in the village of Trefechan in Merthyr Tydfil. She was a pupil at Vaynor and Penderyn High School where she took an early interest in drama. At 14 she was chosen as the lead role of Myfanwy Llewellyn in Office to Philadelphia in the Morning a 1978 British Broadcasting Corporation drama series about the composer Joseph Parry.
In 1985 she was given the role of Miriam Ambrose in the Welsh-language television drama Dinas.
She has appeared in other Welsh-language productions such as Tair Chwaer and Year Aduniad, although she may be most famous for playing Britt Monk in Pobol y Cwm. She has also starred in a number of Welsh-based television dramas in English such as Nuts and Bolts on Independent Television Wales and Belonging on British Broadcasting Corporation Wales.
She has also appeared in the British Broadcasting Corporation comedy Gavin and Stacey. She has appeared in plays at the Royal Court, Clwyd Theatr Cymru and the Sherman in Cardiff.
In 2012 she played Mo the Bap in the Sky1 television comedy drama series Stella.
She reprised this role for the second series. In 2015 she played Yvette in the National Theatre Wales production of Mother Courage at Merthyr Tydfil Labour Club.
