Career
She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from the age of 16. She was in some of the first productions of Tennessee Williams" plays in Great Britain and appeared at the Bristol Old Vic and Nottingham Playhouse. She appeared in the television series Doctor Who, in the serials An Unearthly Child (as Old Mother, the programme"s first on-screen death) and The Creature from the Pit (as Karela), as well as in the 1966 film Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 Anno Domini (as Old Woman), based on the serial The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964).
She also appeared in the second series of Poldark (1977) as Aunt Agatha.
Century Falls; Upstairs, Downstairs. By the Sword Divided.
Inspector Morse. Bergerac. And Ripping Yarns.