Susan Fleetwood
Susan Fleetwood | |
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Royal Academy of Dramatic Art | |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1969–1995 |
Partner | Sebastian Graham-Jones |
Relatives | Mick Fleetwood (brother) |
Susan Maureen Fleetwood (21 September 1944 – 29 September 1995) was a British stage, film, and television actress, who specialized in classical theatre. She received popular attention in the television series Chandler & Co and The Buddha of Suburbia.[1][2][3]
Early life
Fleetwood was born in
Stage
After training with RADA, where a student production won Fleetwood the Bancroft gold medal, in 1964 she joined the company of the Liverpool Everyman theatre, where her fellow student Terry Hands had been appointed director. When Hands moved to the RSC in 1967, she followed. In 1968 at Stratford she gave two commanding performances: in the relatively unpromising part of Cassandra in Troilus and Cressida and as Regan in Lear. In 1969, under the direction of Hands, she movingly doubled the parts Thaisa and Marina in Pericles.
In 1974, she played
Personal life
Fleetwood's partner at the time of her death was theatre director Sebastian Graham Jones.[6]
Death
After suffering from ovarian cancer for a decade, Fleetwood died in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England on 29 September 1995, aged 51.[1]
Select TV and filmography
- Hamlet (BBC television recording of a Prospect Theatre Company stage performance, 1972), Ophelia, opposite Ian McKellen[7]
- The Watercress Girl (Granada's Country Matters series, 1972) title role[8]
- Don't Be Silly (BBC Television Play for Today, 1979) as Pamela Redman
- Granada Television, 1981) as Leonora
- Clash of the Titans (1981) as Athena
- Heat and Dust (1983) as Mrs. Crawford, the Burra Memsahib (The Nineteen Twenties in the Civil Lines at Satipur)
- Minder (1983) Series 4 Episode 2 "Senior Citizen Caine" as Sonia Caine
- Strangers and Brothers (1984) as Lady Caroline Quaife (2 episodes)
- Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) as Mrs. Dribb
- The Sacrifice (1986) as Adelaide
- White Mischief (1987) as Gwladys, Lady Delamere
- Dream Demon (1988) as Deborah
- Summer's Lease (1989) as Molly Pargeter
- The Krays (1990) as Rose
- Six Characters in Search of an Author (TV drama, 1992) as The Mother
- voice)
- The Buddha of Suburbia(TV drama 1993) as Eva Kay
- Lovejoy (TV drama, Series 5, Episode 8, 1993) as Mary Gladden
- Under the Hammer (TV, 1994) as Calpurnia Beacon
- Wycliffe (TV, 1994) as Lady Cynthia Bottrell
- Chandler & Co (BBC Television, 1995) as Kate Phillips
- Persuasion (1995) as Lady Russell
References
- ^ a b c 'Susan Fleetwood; Obituary,' The Times (2 October 1995), p. 23
- ^ "Obituary: SUSAN FLEETWOOD". Variety. 16 October 1995.
- ^ a b "Obituary: Susan Fleetwood". The Independent: 18. 4 October 1995.
- ^ Susan Fleetwood Film Reference biography
- ISBN 978-0-9559830-1-6.
- ^ Coveney, Michael (23 August 2004). "Obituary: Sebastian Graham-Jones". the Guardian. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
- ^ "Hamlet (1972)". BFI. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 31 July 2021.
- ^ "The Watercress Girl (1972)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 30 December 2018.