Spent some time in her youth as a cinema usherette at the ABC Cinema at Erdington, Birmingham.
When she got her Rank, contract she changed her name to Heywood, which was her mother's maiden name.
She married George Drake, a former assistant attorney general of New York State.
In the late 60's she was in Italy making The Midas Run with Fred Astaire.
While she was under contract to Rank she was loaned to United Artists and Universal.
She met Raymond Stross, who she married, on the set of A Terrible Beauty and formed a production company together, He died in 1988 from a heart attack,.
She met Raymond Stross on the set of A Terrible Beauty, married and formed a production company together. He died of a heart attack in 1988,.
Her father was an ex philharmonic orchestra violinist.