 She was a leading actress at Dublin's Gate Theatre with transfers to London's West End in the late 1940s, she also was part of the Abbey Theatre Dublin in 1948 as a visiting company member with The Lyric Theatre Company where she appeared in The Viscount of Blarney 1948.In 1946 she appeared in a Radio Eireann production of a play by Irish playwright Teresa Deevy called "Katie Roche" and again in 1947 in "Wife to James Whelan", these were both produced by Gabriel Fallon.She is best known for her roles in "Odd Man Out" (1947), "The Rising of the Moon" (1957), "Von Richthofen and Brown" (1971), also "The Loves of Cass Maguire" (1975), and "Playboy of the Western World" (1946).