About
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...
Known for
The Wednesday PlaySeries • 1964
ITV PlayhouseSeries • 1967
PlayhouseSeries • 1974
Thirty-Minute TheatreSeries • 1965
Orson Welles' Great MysteriesSeries • 1973
Worzel GummidgeSeries • 1979
Gideon's WaySeries • 1965
Mystery and ImaginationSeries • 1966
A Woman of SubstanceSeries • 1985
Bunny Lake Is MissingMovie • 1965
Oliver!Movie • 1968
The InnocentsMovie • 1961
Murder Most FoulMovie • 1964
AsylumMovie • 1972
IvanhoeMovie • 1952
IndiscreetMovie • 1958
The Cruel SeaMovie • 1953
Tiger BayMovie • 1959
Saraband for Dead LoversMovie • 1948
Trouble in StoreMovie • 1953
Secret PeopleMovie • 1952
Green for DangerMovie • 1946