Gregg was born in the village of
Owslebury, Hampshire, the second daughter of Richard Russell Gregg, an accountant, and his wife Gertrude Everley,
née Pope. Her mother struggled with alcoholism and died when she was five years old. She was educated at
Badminton School, Bristol, and the
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She made her professional stage debut as the maid in
Noël Coward's
Easy Virtue at the
Duke of York's Theatre, London. Engagements in minor parts followed in
The Constant Nymph, tours in
Easy Virtue and
Hit the Deck, and a repertory season at the Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham. In the
West End in 1929, she succeeded Phyllis Konstam as Val Power in
The Matriarch. Her association with the plays of Coward was renewed at the
Phoenix Theatre in September 1930 when she played Louise in
Private Lives. In the 1950s Gregg appeared on
BBC television in a range of productions from a dramatisation of ''
Tess of the D'Urbervilles in 1952 (as Mrs Durbeyfield) to mysteries such as My Guess Would be Murder
(1957), comedies including Haul for the Shore
(1956), historical drama such as The Scarlet Pimpernel
(1955), and contemporary drama including Let us be True'' (1953). In 1930, Gregg married the scenic designer and painter David McCall Homan in
Liverpool, but the marriage was dissolved within a few years. She died of natural causes at her home in
Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire in 1959, aged 58. ==Filmography ==