Biography

Her younger brother, Mick Fleetwood, is Fleetwood Mac's drummer.

Quietly battled ovarian cancer nearly a decade before she succumbed to the disease. She continued to perform throughout until the year of her death in 1995 at age 51.

Daughter of John Joseph Kells Fleetwood, a Royal Air Force fighter pilot, and wife Bridget Maureen (Brereton) Fleetwood; educated at sixteen different schools, including Egypt and Norway, and at the Convent of the Nativity in Kent when her family finally resettled in England.

Succeeded Judi Dench as Portia in the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1972 production of "The Merchant of Venice". She became an Associate Artist of the RSC.

Formidable British classical actress trained for the stage at RADA (with a scholarship) where she won the school's coveted Bancroft Gold Medal in 1964.