Career
Her television credits include The Lakes (British Broadcasting Corporation 1997, 1999), "Biddy" in a television adaptation of Great Expectations, All the King"s Men, Clash of the Santas, alongside Robson Green and Mark Benton, Clocking Office (British Broadcasting Corporation), and Flesh and Blood with Christopher Eccleston. She also appeared in the sixth season Doctor Who episode "Night Terrors", alongside the Eleventh Doctor played by Matt Smith. She appeared in the British Broadcasting Corporation documentary The Genius of Mozart as Constanze, Wolfgang"s wife.
In 2009, she played Carol Boynton in the Independent Television adaptation of Appointment with Death, in series 11 of Agatha Christie"s Poirot.
In mid-2014, she played Doctor of Science Hawthorn in Coronation Street, investigating the circumstances of the attack on and subsequent death of Tina McIntyre (Michelle Keegan) and on 5 January 2015, she played Kenzie Calhoun"s mother, Ailsa in Waterloo Road
Her other stage work includes Tales from Hollywood, Losing Louis at the Trafalgar Studios in London and in 2006 Women Beware Women for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. She was nominated for "what"s on stage" award in 2011 for her role as Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible at Open Air Theatre, Regent"s Park.
In 2015 she appeared as Mabel Grayson in the British Broadcasting Corporation television series Father Brown episode 3.9 "The Truth in the Wine". The same year, she appeared as the eponymous monarch in the Royal Society of Chemistry "s production of Helen Edmundson"s Queen Anne.
