Carry On films to Channel 4 sitcom
Friday Night Dinner, has died aged 87.
Alongside her many and various screen credits were stage appearances including playing Celia opposite Vanessa Redgrave in the 1961 RSC production of
As You Like It, directed by her husband Michael Elliott, and new work by Steven Pimlott, Richard Jones and Phelim McDermott.
Her daughters, theatre director Marianne Elliott and actress Susannah Elliott, said: "Our mother had the most astute, vibrant personality and made people laugh wherever she went. She was a great reader, art lover and raconteur.
"She contributed in a voluntary way to the theatrical world through her involvement in the building of the Royal Exchange Theatre, alongside her husband Michael Elliott, and her support for the Actors' Centre and the Ladies' Theatrical Guild. She was an active member of her local history society and opera society, and was a fierce campaigner and fund-raiser for the Hogarth Trust."