Career
In the 1960s and 1970s, she became a familiar face in many one-off sitcom roles and supporting parts in films, with her first main recurring role being Miss Argyll, frustrated girlfriend of the title star Milo O'Shea in three series of Me Mammy (1968–71). Prior to that, she played a cameo role in The Pumpkin Eater (1964) as a psychotic young woman opposite Anne Bancroft, delivering a performance that has been called one of the "best screen acting miniatures one could hope to see."
Her talent for comedy was also used to good effect in programmes such as Steptoe and Son and On the Buses. She made appearances in the films Catch Us If You Can, A Man for All Seasons (1966) and Charlie Bubbles, (1967) as well as TV spin-off films Never Mind the Quality Feel the Width (1973), Nearest and Dearest (1972) and Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1973). She also appeared as a customer in the pilot episode of Open All Hours (1973) and in Our Mother's House (1967), a 'dark' movie about a family of young children which starred Dirk Bogarde.
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