Career
Ross started her career in the British entertainment industry as a publicist and/or agent for some of Britain"s leading entertainers of the 1950s and 1960s. Initially she focused on comedic performers such as Benny Hill, Harry H. Corbett, Dick Emery, Bob Monkhouse, Terry Scott, Hugh Lloyd, Sheila Hancock and Tony Hancock. She represented Tony Hancock from 1954 onwards, helping guide him to his greatest public and critical successes on radio and television
Unable to save Tony Hancock from his chronic alcoholism, she initiated a divorce in 1968.
His personal and professional life spiraling downwards, Tony Hancock committed suicide while working in Australia in June 1968 before the divorce was finalised. She was in demand for her services and was also engaged to promote films and stage shows.
Clients included Universal-International (the then United Kingdom arm of Universal Pictures) - which hired her to promote Shelley Winters, Rock Hudson, Piper Laurie among many - and the Coral Leisure Group. In November 1988, she organised the official 80th birthday celebrations given in New York for British broadcaster Alistair Cooke by the British Broadcasting Corporation for which she secured the musical services of James Galway and Leonard Bernstein and a personal video greeting from President Ronald Reagan.
In the 1990s and 2000s, Hancock served as the Senior Vice President of Acquisitions for the movie distributor American Video Films She has been the United States representative of the United Kingdom"s leading bottled water company Highland Spring. since 1996.
Hancock also arranged the investiture ceremony held in Manhattan in November 2004. She was appointed Vice Chairman of the United States wing of the Royal Television Society. In a 1991 British Broadcasting Corporation television dramatisation of the life of Tony Hancock, she is played by the British actress Frances Barber.
