Her show, "She Knows You Know!", based on the life of Hylda Baker and performed at the Vaudeville Theatre, was nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Entertainment of the 1997 season.
She grew up in the village of Woolley near Wakefield, West Yorkshire. Her family later moved to Wales, where she studied acting at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
She lived in Yorkshire for many years before moving to London in 2014.