To celebrate her 86th birthday, the television channel Talking Pictures TV devoted a day to her movies, interspersed with specially recorded programmes of her reminiscences. (April 2016)
Gave up acting in the 1960s to raise her family. She then worked for 21 years for the high street retailer W.H. Smith, selling books.
She was on the cover of the first TV Times.
Her mother was theatrical agent Vivienne Black, and her twin brother is George Bryden.