She acted at the Old Vic Theatre in London, England with Dame Sybil Thorndike, Sir Ben Greet, Andrew Leigh, Estelle Stead, Hutin Britton, Constance Robertson, Fisher White, William Stack, J. Leslie Firth, John Napper, and A. Corney Grain in the company. Matheson Lang was director.
Frail-looking British character actress, on stage from 1912 at Stratford-upon-Avon. She was noted for her roles in plays by Shaw and Chekhov. On screen, she specialised in eccentric, or dotty old ladies and dowagers. She is particularly remembered as Aunt Juley in BBC's The Forsyte Saga (1967).