An engineer's daughter, she had first planned on becoming a ballerina, using her original Christian name Muguette, but abandoned those plans by the age of 17 when she realized that her physique was more in keeping with her other first name, Megs. She trained in Liverpool at the School of Dancing and Dramatic Art and then joined the Liverpool Repertory Company in 1933 before moving to London to appear at the Player's Theatre four years later.
During the 1950's, Megs was busy acting on stage and had considerable critical success in two plays by Emlyn Williams, 'Light of Heart' (1940) and 'The Wind of Heaven' (1945). Against character, she also played the vicious, unstable Alma Winemiller in 'Summer and Smoke' (1951) by Tennessee Williams. In 1956, she was awarded the Clarence Derwent Award as Best Supporting Actress for her role as the stoic wife of a longshoreman harbouring incestuous feelings for his niece in 'A View from the Bridge' by Arthur Miller. The previous year, she had made her Broadway debut in Chekhov's 'A Day by the Sea' as a supportive governess to an alcoholic physician.
as Mrs Turner(3 eps)
as Mrs Braithwaite
as Ethel Collyer(19 eps)
as Mrs. Braithwaite(19 eps)
as Iris
as Emily Lloyd(1 ep)
as Eileen Gray
as Iris Peters
as Mum(15 eps)
as Mrs Banks(1 ep)
as Mrs. Palmer
as Mrs. Grose
as Eileen Gray(1 ep)
as Beryl Steele
as Mrs. White
as Mrs. White(1 ep)
as Nurse Higgins
as Janet(11 eps)
as Mrs. Pepper(1 ep)
as Mrs. Hewlett(7 eps)
as Clara Peggotty
as Matron
as Mrs. Bulfinch(1 ep)
as Mrs. Bedwin
as Beryl Steele(1 ep)
as Mrs. Christoforides
as Mrs Bunch(1 ep)
as Mrs Smedhurst(1 ep)
as Miss Wellcome(1 ep)
as Sister
as Liz Rikker(1 ep)
as Mrs. Turner(1 ep)
as Molly Wilderness(1 ep)
as Gentlewoman
as Gladys Thomas
as Dr. Murphy(1 ep)
as Lady Johnson
as Mrs Nubbles(4 eps)
as Mrs Gordon
as Mrs. Grose
as Kitty Launder
as Amy(1 ep)
as Rose Brock
as Mrs. Phillips
as Lily Grimshaw
as Doris Banks
as Nurse Evans
as Millie
as Mrs. Snowden
as Ma Waite(1 ep)
as Mrs. Pritchett
as Mrs. Jones, the Landlady
as Maggie Gay
as Miss Gibson
as Vi Vining
as Mrs. Powell
as Tallow's Sister
as Servant to Isaac
as Penny
as Gentlewoman(1 ep)
as Mrs. Briggs
as Mrs. Marshall
as Nan Ritchie
as The Innkeeper
as Frau Busche
as Mrs. Alice Trelawne
as Angustina
as Nurse Woods
as Barmaid
as Shirley
as Housewife
as Peach St. Clair
as Nurse (uncredited)
as Gwen Price
as Berta Von Reimer
as Barmaid