Trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama after a London upbringing, she entered television with roles such as Mary Bennet in the BBC’s 1980 Pride and Prejudice and a part in the 1982 adaptation of The Bell, while her stage work for the Royal Shakespeare Company featured Ophelia in Hamlet, Luciana in The Comedy of Errors, and later Helma in The Park. The character that brought her na…
