- She and husband Michael Denison were both awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1983 Queen's Birthday Honours List for their services to drama.
- A keen lepidopterist, she published a book on the conservation of British butterflies as well as many crime novels featuring the character Inspector Cardiff.
- Daughter of Arnold and Kate Gray Bailey. Her father was a judge in Malaysia. She was sent to boarding school in England but returned to Malaysia in 1929. In 1931 she ran away from home and made her way to England on a cargo ship and worked as a governess. She was admitted to the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1938, where she met her husband, Michael Denison.
- She and her husband Michael Denison trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, whose alumni include Terence Stamp, Nicholas Courtney, Julia Ormond, Rupert Friend, Angela Lansbury, Matthew Goode, Hugh Bonneville, Daniel Hunt, Minnie Driver and Julian Fellowes.
- Wrote she play The Happy Honeymoon for the radio.
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