The daughter of a bank manager, she attended Sutton Coldfield Grammar School and was an amateur actress, having trained in the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, before appearing in repertory theatre in Sheffield and York.
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She also appeared in an episode of the children's series Dramarama and, for a while, she had her own show on Beacon Radio, as well as later touring in the stage plays Murder in Mind and Don't Rock the Boat.
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