Having given birth to a daughter, Emily, in 1984, she gradually wound down her acting career. Her husband, actor David Buck, died from cancer in 1989. Twenty years later she was interviewed in, and was the cover star of, the coffee-table book "Hammer Glamour". She returned to acting in 2011. In 2015 she appeared as a contestant on the red team in the BBC antiques gameshow "Bargain Hunt". In December 2018 she appeared in episode 4 of the Christmas series of Celebrity Mastermind with The History of Kew Gardens as her specialist subject.