- Older sister of actor Bill Travers. She also had two younger sisters, Alice (born 1915) and Pearl (born 1918).
- In the early 1980s, she studied psychotherapy, and after qualifying she practiced as a hypnotist and psychologist.
- Her own personal favorite among her films was No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948), in which she had a starring role.
- A student at the Convent de la Sagesse, she acted on stage from 1931, though her first professional appearance was at the Playhouse in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in 1933.
- An avid painter, she exhibited her art at the Travers Art Gallery in Kensington in 1969, in partnership with her sisters Alice and Pearl.
- Virginia McKenna was her sister-in-law.
- Recipient of theatre awards - Critics Award The Deep Blue Sea, Drama Award - Man and Superman and Much Ado About Nothing.
- Mother of actress Susan Travers
- Lived at Loraine, St Ives, Cornwall.
- Daughter, Sally Linden, born 1949, with her second husband, James Holman.
- In the early 1980's she became a qualified psychologist and hypnotist.
- Her professional debut was as Doris Lea in 'Cyanara' at Newcastle Playhouse in June 1933 while her London debut was as Jill Sherry in 'Murder in Mayfair at The Globe Theatre in Septermber 1934.
- Daughter, Jennifer Susan (Susan Travers), born 1939, with her first husband, Guy Leon.
- In 1969 with her sisters Alice and Pearl she opened Travers Gallery in Kensington.
- She made her West End debut in '934 and her film debut in 1935 in Children of Fog.
- She had 2 daughters and a son.
- She was in repertory in Birmingham in 1935/36.
- Educated at the Convent de la Sagesse.
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