- Some other sources give her birth year as 1928 or 1929.
- A big break came when she was selected from 3,000 applicants to star in Brighton Rock (1948).
- Daughter of an architect and surveyor.
- Tried out for the lead in The Blue Lagoon (1949) but lost out to Jean Simmons.
- First wanted to be a singer, but because she could not enter the Academy of Music for a year, she competed for the Anne M. Child scholarship to the Academy's dramatic section. She won the scholarship. A year later, she was invited to join the J. Arthur Rank Company of Youth to train for a screen career.
- Spent some time with the Rank Organization's repertory company at Worthing. Her performance as Celia in "As You Like It" won high praise.
- Prior to an acting career, she studied at a Hammersmith convent in West London and had scarce stage experience.
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