
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.

Playhouse
TV • 1974

Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV • 1965

Gideon's Way
TV • 1965

The Human Jungle
TV • 1963

Mystery and Imagination
TV • 1966

Mystery and Imagination
TV • 1966

A Woman of Substance
TV • 1985

Worzel Gummidge
TV • 1979

Father Brown
TV • 1974

Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
TV • 1973

Oliver!
MOVIE • 1968

Ivanhoe
MOVIE • 1952

Young at Heart
TV • 1980

The Cruel Sea
MOVIE • 1953

Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!
TV • 1974

Asylum
MOVIE • 1972

Poison Pen
MOVIE • 1939