The daughter of Barbara A. (née Leney) (born 1945) and Terence F. Stagg (born 1943), who married in 1966 at Rochford in Essex, she was discovered by Michael Napier Brown, the artistic director at the Royal Theatre in Northampton (who also discovered her co-star in the series, Gian Sammarco), who recommended her to Thames Television for the role of Pandora Braithwaite.
With his wife Vilma Hollingbery he has a daughter, Kate, and the couple have three grandsons - Henry, George and Tom.
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He joined The Penguin Players in 1959, meeting his wife Vilma Hollingbery in the same year, and marrying her in 1961 at Eastbourne.
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He wrote to Malcolm Farquhar (with whom he and his wife had worked at Harare in Zimbabwe), Artistic Director at the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham, who appointed him as Associate Director.
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As the Royal Theatre was combining with the nearby Derngate concert hall to create the Royal & Derngate, Napier Brown relinquished his post and he and his wife returned to their home at Ham in Richmond in Surrey.
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Napier Brown remained at the Royal Theatre for over 20 years (where he directed over 130 productions) and wrote the plays Is This the Day? (1990), co-written with his wife Vilma Hollingbery and which won the Eileen Anderson Central TV award for Best New Play.
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