Education
Born in Devizes, Wiltshire, she attended the Fitzmaurice Grammar School until its closure in 1980 and then Street Laurence Comprehensive School, both in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire.
Born in Devizes, Wiltshire, she attended the Fitzmaurice Grammar School until its closure in 1980 and then Street Laurence Comprehensive School, both in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire.
Long played Alison in the television adaptations of Peter Glidewell"s Schoolgirl Chums and Saint Ursula"s in Danger in 1982 and 1983 respectively. Later she appeared in the 1984 film The Chain. She played Eloise de Ricordeau in the first series of the British Broadcasting Corporation Drama The Tripods but was killed before filming the second series.
She died three days after sustaining injuries in an accident on the M4 motorway, when a lorry crashed into her parked car after it had broken down.
Her passenger survived with only minor injuries. The resulting inquest heard that the lorry driver had sneezed, causing his vehicle to crash into her car while it was parked on the hard shoulder.
She was replaced by Cindy Shelley for the second series of The Tripods.