. Her first on-screen role was in the  Upstairs, Downstairs  episode,  Wanted - a Good Home . She also appeared in  Sense and Sensibility ,  The Scarlet Pimpernel and the 1982  Bergerac  episode "A Perfect Recapture". She appeared as Pompeiian citizen Caecilius's wife Metella in Doctor Who The Fires of Pompeii.. Childs was married