Wallace started her career as a teacher. Wallace went on to have a lengthy career on television and the stage since the early 1980s in among others,
Juliet Bravo,
Bergerac,
Making Out,
The Bill,
Common as Muck,
Heartbeat and
Doctors. Wallace appeared in different roles in various television works by Victoria Wood, including
Screenplay: Happy Since I Met You in 1981,
Victoria Wood as Seen on TV in the mid-1980s, the television film
Pat and Margaret in 1994, one episode of
Dinnerladies in 1998 and finally in Wood's television historical drama film
Housewife, 49 in 2006. == Filmography ==