Other Television and Film Roles
Her popularity gained her a part in the 1963 British film The L-Shaped Room, in which she played the part of a prostitute, starring alongside actress Leslie Caron.
After her final departure from Coronation Street she appeared in a one-act television play, Hidden Talents in 1986. At this time, she was suffering from advanced lung cancer and in the play she played a woman dying of cancer.
She also starred in short-lived sitcom Constant Hot Water the same year, playing a Bridlington landlady.
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