Her big TV break came in 1991 with the role of Joy, the intelligent, acid-tongued secretary and foil to her corporate-speak boss, in the
Channel 4 comedy
Drop The Dead Donkey. When her father died in 2000, the producers of
Ballykissangel asked whether she would join the cast. She had reservations over her ability to cope emotionally but took on the part of Avril Burke in 2001. In 2010 she appeared in "Your Sudden Death Question", S4:E3 of
Lewis. In 2012 she appeared in an episode of police comedy
Vexed. In October 2013, she appeared in Sarah Rutherford's
Adult Supervision at
Park Theatre (London). In 2016, she appeared in "
Shut Up and Dance", an episode of the
anthology series Black Mirror. ==Director==