 Previous roles had included Patience Moran in a 1968 TV adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes story "The Boscombe Valley Mystery", Jill Rowles in the Southern TV adventure series "Freewheelers" in 1972, and a “Brummie” holiday camper (Gladys) in the raunchy 1977 comedy film "Confessions from a Holiday Camp".Ellis was best known to American audiences for her role as the character Joy in "The Bugaloos" (1970).Ellis is divorced and the mother of one daughter, Sasha, born in 1985.