Career
She started her career working in rep at Cheltenham, York, Salisbury then performed with the RSC and the Royal Exchange Theatre and Library in Manchester, Chichester, The Tricycle, The Gate, The Finborough, Theatre 503, The Orange Tree, Battersea Arts Centre, New End, The Finborough, Birmingham, Theatre Clywd, Watford and extensive touring in Whipping It Up, Ladies in Lavender and Entertaining Angels. She performed as Ms. Capulet in Tom Morris' Juliet and her Romeo at the Bristol Old Vic She performed Cymbeline with Mark Rylance at The Globe Theatre and Brooklyn Academy of Music. She also spent a year working with Mike Alfred's company, Method and Madness. performing Private Lives, Jude the Obscure and Flesh and Blood. She was nominated for the Best Actress Off West End award in 2011 for The Firewatchers at the Old Red Lion.
She has also worked in Television since 1990 starting with The Bill, Casualty, Pie in the Sky, Peak Practice, Spywatch (bbc Series), Big Bad World, Vanity Fair (1998 TV serial, The Stepfather (mini series), Love Soup, Trust (mini series), Midsomer Murders and Poirrot.
She played a newspaper editor in the ITV1 2011 Christmas special edition of Inspector Morse prequel Endeavour.She continues the role in Endeavour Series 1.
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