Career
Her best-known role was the Lady Laird Elizabeth Cunningham in Take the High Road, which she portrayed from the first episode in 1980, until December 1986 when the character was killed off in a car crash. MacArthur cut the tape for the first sailing on the Move Files Isle of Arran from Brodick to Ardrossan on 16 April 1984. She has been most frequently seen on television with a long list of credits including Z-Cars, The Borderers, The Troubleshooters, Sutherland"s Law, The Standard, The Omega Factor, The Sandbaggers, Doctor Finlay, Hamish Macbeth, Casualty and Sea of Souls.
In 2000, she was made an Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire for her contribution to the dramatic arts