Biography

Her younger brother, Mick Fleetwood, is Fleetwood Mac's drummer.

Quietly battled ovarian cancer nearly a decade before she succumbed to the disease. She continued to perform throughout until the year of her death in 1995 at age 51.

Daughter of John Joseph Kells Fleetwood, a Royal Air Force fighter pilot, and wife Bridget Maureen (Brereton) Fleetwood; educated at sixteen different schools, including Egypt and Norway, and at the Convent of the Nativity in Kent when her family finally resettled in England.

Succeeded Judi Dench as Portia in the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1972 production of "The Merchant of Venice". She became an Associate Artist of the RSC.

After RADA she was one of the actors who went with Terry Hands and formed the Liverpool Everyman Company (1964). At the Everyman, between 1965 and 67, she played Lady Percy in "Henry IV"; Gwendolyn in "The Importance of Being Earnest"; Alison in "Look Back in Anger"; Liz in "Fando and Liz"; Margaret in "The Great God Brown"; Chorus Leader in "Murder in the Cathedral"; the Woman in "The Four Seasons"; and Lady Macbeth in "Macbeth".