Career
She also played the role of Brenda Jacks in the British Broadcasting Corporation series, Home Time in 2009 and Julia in Fast Freddie, The Widow and Maine in 2011. In 2013, she appeared in one episode of Truckers. Born of Irish descent from a large Irish family of five brothers.
Her mother was a cleaner and her father a labourer.
Her family immigrated to England in the 1940s. Theatre work includes: Henry V, After the Fall and Bartholomew Fair at the Royal National Theatre, Edmund at the Royal Court, and numerous representative companies.
television work includes: series regular in Doctors, Home Time, Born to Run, Thin Ice, Castles. Period drama Nicholas Nickleby.
Plus roles in The Impressions Show, EastEnders and The Bill, and many other productions.
In 1997, she starred in the British Broadcasting Corporation drama Born to Run.