Completed two tours of North America with the Royal Shakespeare Company in her early years.
Daughter of Francis Drake and Annie (Dalton) McGlinchy.
Husband Maxwell Turner was a high court judge. She retired for nearly a decade following their 1938 marriage.
Life long friend of Lord Olivier. The two met in grade school when She played Petruchio to His Katherine in a reverse gender Taming Of The Shrew.
Made her stage debut at age 9 in "The Fairy Doll". She was 13 when she appeared in a production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" along with a 10-year-old actor named Laurence Olivier both playing the leading roles.
Older sister Emma was born in 1902.
Prominent British stage actress (from 1913) whose close to seven-decade reign included a wealth of Shakespearean ladies (Lady Macbeth, Portia, Viola, Helena, Beatrice).