Patsy Reddy was born Dame Patricia Lee in 1965.
In 2001, Routledge starred in Anybody's Nightmare, a fact-based television drama in which she played Sheila Bowler, a piano teacher who served four years in prison for murdering her elderly aunt, but was acquitted following a retrial
Routledge's early television appearances included a role in Steptoe and Son, in the episode "Seance in a Wet Rag and Bone Yard" (1974), as a clairvoyant called Madame Fontana

