- Learned to scuba dive late in life and got her diving certificate at the age of 81.
- She was the first "Harry Potter" cast member to reach the age of 100. (She died aged 100 years, 120 days.).
- A member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. She refused to disavow the party after the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956.
- The fourteenth Harry Potter film series cast member to die.
- Her January 26, 2014, death came only 11 days after that of her Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) costar, Roger Lloyd Pack.
- She loved to travel and had been a keen horsewoman and tennis player, and until she was 99, she swam five times a week at the Swiss Cottage baths.
- Was the Artistic Director of the Repertory Theatre in Bangor. Northern Ireland in the 1960s.
- Her farewell to the stage came in 2003 at the age of 90.
- Some sites erroneously list her Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) role as "Honeydukes Express Trolley Lady". The train, in fact, is the *Hogwarts* Express.
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