Trivia

Was noted in the 1960's for her dominant performance in the play "Mother Courage" as a member of the National Theatre. She tended to favour 'challenging' roles, often playing unsympathetic characters or misfits.

Mother of actress Lyn Ashley and former mother-in-law of actor Eric Idle.

Australian stage actress, in the U.K. from 1957.

Her father was a businessman and her mother taught music.

She came to Britain in 1958 in the play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.

She married a banker when too young and split up.

At 17 had a daughter Lynn who became the actress Lynn Ashley who married Eric Idle.