Became an Associate Member of RADA.
Graduated from RADA.
In 1934, she helped to found the actors' trade union Equity.
Married to composer John Wooldridge, who was killed in a car crash in 1958.
Mother of actress Susan Wooldridge and the director Hugh Wooldridge.
Of French, Scottish and Spanish ancestry.
She was the last surviving signatory of Equity, the document which in 1934 established the British actors' union.