On the local stage as a teenager and later performed in London's West End in the early 1950s using the stage name of Lisbeth Kearns. She changed her moniker to Lisa Daniels when she arrived in Hollywood years later.
Supplied the voice of the mother dalmatian Perdita in the Walt Disney animated classic 101 Dalmatians (1961).
Won the title of Miss Birmingham (England) at the age of 13.