Actress. Born in Ayr, the daughter of a bank manager, Guthrie was educated at Ayr Academy, Ayr Grammar School and boarded at St. Bride's Girls School in Helensburgh. At the age of 12 she joined the BBC radio show Children's Hour and subsequently trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. She went on to work with the Perth Repertory Theatre and appeared in several television plays in the late 1950s. In 1959, she married John Borland, who ran a business in Kilmarnock, and Guthrie took time out to raise a family. She appeared in a television adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Weir of Hermiston (1973), a serialisation of Sir Walter Scott's Heart of Midlothian for radio (1978) and took regular roles in pantomime.
However, Guthrie was best known as the dour busybody Mrs Mack in the long-running soap opera Take the High Road, a role she played from 1983 - 2003.
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