For her role on television as "Mrs Silly", she received the first of her four Best Actress BAFTA TV Award nominations. On stage, she won her third and fourth "Evening Standard" awards for Best Actress, for "Virginia" in 1981 and "The Way of the World" in 1984. She won two more Best Actress BAFTA Awards for her roles as Joyce Chilvers in the 1984 black comedy "A Private Function", and the title role in the 1987 film "The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne".