Career
Other appearances include: The Black Stuff, Spyder"s Web, Within These Walls, Hadleigh, Z-Cars, Doctor Who (in the serial The Androids of Tara), Dickens of London, All Creatures Great and Small, Bergerac, Dempsey and Makepeace, Holby City and The Bill. She has guest-starred in the audio dramas Sapphire and Steel: Cruel Immortality, Circular Time and The Adolescence of Time. Lois was born in Bridgwater, Somerset on 26 April 1947, the daughter of Doctor John Baxter and Christine Doctorate Baxter (née Arkens).
The family later moved to Worthen in Shropshire where John was a General Practice for many years.
Lois attended Shrewsbury High School from 1951–1959 when she left for boarding school.