Career
Born in Streatham, London, she trained at RADA and had an early stage hit in Pick-Up Girl (1946) by the American dramatist Elsa Shelley. Plunkett appeared in 12 films, in supporting roles. The best known of these is probably, in which her character, Doris Sandigate, is the step-daughter of Rose (Googie Withers), the leading role.
Her husband was the actor Tim Turner (died 1987).