Education
Born as Isabel Hodgkinson in Aldridge, Staffordshire, she studied painting at Birmingham Art School.
Born as Isabel Hodgkinson in Aldridge, Staffordshire, she studied painting at Birmingham Art School.
In 1937, she joined the Cheltenham Repertory Company as a scenic artist. She was soon involved in acting with some small parts. Her stage appearances included The Deep Blue Sea, Breaking the Code and John Osborne"s The Hotel in Amsterdam, at the Royal, Haymarket.
In 1949 she appeared in "the Foolish Gentlewoman" at the Duchess in London.
By 1953 she was also appearing on British television in The Quatermass Experiment and went on to make many television appearances including I, Claudius and Inspector Morse. She appeared with Paul Scofield in an Independent Television Saturday Night production of The Hotel in Amsterdam broadcast on 14 March 1971.
Among her film appearances she was in The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan and the film version of Inadmissible Evidence. Paul Temple, British Broadcasting Corporation The Reluctant Peer by William Douglas-Home broadcast on British Broadcasting Corporation (1967) The Bird Table (1982) A Photograph of Lindsey Mowatt (1986) by Ellen Dryden Summer Attachment (1986) by Michael Sharp Oh!.