An engineers 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 Players Theatre four years later.During the 1950s, 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 Chekhovs A Day by the Sea as a supportive governess to an alcoholic physician.
Mrs. Alice Trelawne
Film 1948
Barmaid
Film 1945
Maggie Gay
Film 1954
Mrs. Pritchett
Film 1955
Mrs Jones, the Landlady
Film 1955
Nan Ritchie
Film 1949
Housewife
Film 1945
Barmaid
Film 1939
Mrs. Powell
Film 1953
Millie
Film 1957
Beryl Steele
Film 1974
Film 1966
Mrs. Palmer
Film 1974
Gentlewoman
Film 1964
Mrs. Marshall
Film 1950
Shirley
Film 1945
Peach St. Clair
Film 1944
Lady Johnson
Film 1962
Mrs. Christoforides
Film 1967
Mrs Gordon
Film 1962
Film 1963
Mrs Braithwaite
Film 1980
Nurse (uncredited)
Film 1943
Matron
Film 1969
Eileen Gray
Film 1976
Mrs. Briggs
Film 1951
Angustina
Film 1947
Mrs. White
Film 1973
Tv 1972
Tv 1970
Tv 1966
Mum
Tv 1974
Tv 1962
Tv 1956
Tv 1974
Dr. Murphy
Tv 1963
Ethel Collyer
Tv 1980