Emerging from Essex, she honed her craft at the Sylvia Young Theatre School before embarking on a television career that spanned more than two decades. Early appearances included a brief stint as Lorna, a love interest for Mark Fowler, in the long-running soap EastEnders in 1991, followed by a prominent role as Tilly Watkins (later Foss) in the BBC drama The House of Eliott, which ran from 1991 to…
