Career
She is best remembered for her television roles as hard-faced matriarch Mary Hammond in the British Broadcasting Corporation drama The Brothers (1972-1976) and as rebellious aristocrat Lady Jocelyn "Joss" Holbrook in the Second World War series Tenko (1982-1984). Other television credits include: Police Surgeon, Maigret, The Odd Manitoba, The Manitoba in Room 17, The Borderers, Paul Temple, Codename, Oil Strike North, Mission Marple, Inspector Morse, Campion, Keeping Up Appearances and Hetty Wainthropp Investigates. She also played the role of the Mother in The Railway Children in two separate British Broadcasting Corporation adaptations in 1951 and 1957.
She continued acting into her nineties, dying in April 2001 at the age of 93.
Foreign many years she lived in the village of Edenhall near Penrith, Cumbria.