Susan Hampshire
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Susan Hampshire CBE | |
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Born | , England, UK | 12 May 1937
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1947–present |
Spouses | |
Children | 2 |
Susan Hampshire, Lady Kulukundis,
Early life
Susan Hampshire was born in Kensington, London,[2] to George Kenneth Hampshire and his wife June (née Pavey) and is of Irish descent.[3] The youngest of five children, she had three sisters and one brother. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a director of Imperial Chemical Industries who was rarely at home, her parents having unofficially separated. As a child, she had some developmental difficulties, unable to spell her name until she was nine and unable to read well until she was 12. Her determined mother founded a small London school in 1928, The Hampshire (now Gems Hampshire School), where Susan was taught.[4]
Her childhood ambition was to be a nurse, but she later decided to become an actress. She was diagnosed as
Career
As an actress, Hampshire worked in the theatre before moving to film and television work. She took the title role in a dramatised version of
In 1966, she was introduced to American TV viewers in the pilot episode of
Hampshire received
Hampshire has been active on the stage, taking the lead roles in many leading plays. In 2007, she was in the play The Bargain, based on a meeting between
Author and charity work
Until the publication in 1981 of her autobiography, Susan's Story, few people were aware of Hampshire's struggle with dyslexia. Since then, she has become a prominent campaigner in the UK on dyslexia issues and was president of the Dyslexia Institute from 1995 to 1998.[11]
Her second book, The Maternal Instinct (1984), discussed women and fertility issues and she published a collection of interviews, Every Letter Counts: Winning in Life Despite Dyslexia, in 1990. She has written children's books, including Lucy Jane at the Ballet, Lucy Jane and the Russian Ballet, Lucy Jane and the Dancing Competition, Lucy Jane on Television, Bear's Christmas, Rosie's First Ballet Lesson and Rosie's Ballet Slippers as well as various books and videos about her lifelong hobby of gardening, including Easy Gardening, My Secret Garden and Trouble Free Gardening.
She is a patron of the
Personal life
Hampshire was married to her first husband, the French film producer Pierre Granier-Deferre, from 1967 until 1974. The couple have a son, Christopher. Their daughter, Victoria, died within 24 hours of her birth.
She was married to her second husband, theatre impresario Sir Eddie Kulukundis, from 1981 until his death in 2021.
Hampshire was appointed
Filmography
- The Woman in the Hall (1947) – Young Jay
- Idol on Parade (1959) – Martha
- Upstairs and Downstairs (1959) – Arriving Passenger 3 (uncredited)
- Expresso Bongo (1959) – Cynthia (uncredited)
- During One Night (1960) – Jean
- The Long Shadow (1961) – Gunilla
- Adventures in Paradise (1961, US:ABC-TV, "Appointment on Tara-Bi") – Estelle Heydin
- The Andromeda Breakthrough (BBC TV series, 1962) – Andromeda
- What Katy Did (BBC TV mini-series, 1962) – Katy Carr
- The Three Lives of Thomasina (1963) – Lori MacGregor
- Night Must Fall (1964) – Olivia Greyne
- Wonderful Life (US: Swingers' Paradise, 1964) – Jenny Taylor
- A Hard Day's Night (1964) – Dancer at Disco (uncredited)
- Danger Man episodes You're Not In Any Trouble, Are You? October 1965 as Lena and Are You Going to be More Permanent December 1965 as Lesley Arden
- Paris au mois d'août (1966) – Patricia Seagrave
- Time Tunnel(1966, TV series, pilot episode) – Althea Hall
- The Fighting Prince of Donegal (1966) – Kathleen McSweeney
- The Trygon Factor (1966) – Trudy Emberday
- The Violent Enemy (1967) – Hannah Costello
- The Forsyte Saga (BBC TV mini-series, 1967) – Fleur Mont née Forsyte
- Vanity Fair (BBC TV mini-series, 1967) – Becky Sharp
- The Lady Is a Liar (BBC TV play, 1968) – Isabella
- An Ideal Husband (BBC TV play, 1969) – Mabel Chiltern
- Monte Carlo or Bust! (1969) – Betty
- The First Churchills (BBC TV mini-series, 1969) – Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough / Sarah Churchill / Sarah Jennings
- David Copperfield (1969, TV Movie) – Agnes Wickfield
- Malpertuis (1971) – Nancy / Euryale / Alice / Nurse / Charlotte
- Living Free(1972) – Joy Adamson
- A Time for Loving (1972) – Patricia Robinson
- Neither the Sea Nor the Sand (1972) – Anna Robinson
- Baffled! (1972, TV Movie) – Michele Brent
- Le Fils (1973) – L'Américaine (uncredited)
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1973, TV Movie) – Isabel
- The Lonely Woman (1973) – Elaine
- The Pallisers (BBC TV serial, 1974) – Glencora / Lady Glencora M'Cluskie
- Thriller (TV series, 1 episode, 1975) – Sally
- The Story of David (1976, TV Movie) – Michal
- Bang!(1977) – Cilla Brown
- Dick Turpin (TV series, one episode 1981) – Lady Melford
- The Barchester Chronicles (BBC TV mini-series, 1982) – La Signora Madeline Vesey Neroni
- Leaving (1984–1985, TV Series) – Martha Ford
- Don't Tell Father(BBC TV series, 1992) – Natasha Bancroft
- The Grand (ITV series, 1997–1998) – Esme Harkness
- Coming Home (1998, TV Mini-Series) – Miss Catto
- Nancherrow (1999, TV Mini-Series) – Miss Catto
- Monarch of the Glen (BBC TV series, 2000–2005) – Molly MacDonald
- Eve Buckingham (Short film, 2001)
- Sparkling Cyanide (2003, TV Movie) – Lucilla Drake
- The Royal (ITV series, two episodes 2009) – Elizabeth Middleditch – "Any Old Iron", "Busman's Holiday"
- Casualty (BBC TV series, two episodes, 2011–2013) – Sylvia Black / Caitlin Northwick – "No Goodbyes", "There's No Place Like Home"
- Midsomer Murders (2017) – Delphi Hartley – "Red in Tooth & Claw"
- Another Mother's Son (2017) – Elena
- Smyrna my Beloved (2021) - Lady Whittall
References
- ^ Profile of Susan Hampshire; registration required, International Who's Who. Accessed 3 September 2006.
- ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 18 March 2011.
- ^ "Live Chat". Monarch of the Glen. BBC Home. 29 October 2014. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
- ^ "School website". Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
- ^ Pamela Coleman (29 March 1996). "Spell of success". TES Magazine.
- ^ "45Cat". Retrieved 17 March 2015.
- ^ "The History of ITV Part 11: Anglia television". Retrieved 25 November 2022.
- ^ "Musical Version of 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' Stars Kirk Douglas". The Mexia Daily New. Vol. 74. 3 April 1973.
- ^ "Susan Hampshire: Monarch of the TV". Leigh Journal. 17 October 2003. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
FAR from being a dotty dowager, Molly - now the Second Lady of Glenbogle - has style...
- ^ "Susan Hampshire turns full Circle", Chichester Observer, 30 July 2008.
- ^ "Celebrity Support". Dyslexia Institute. Retrieved 17 January 2011.
- ^ "Our patrons".
- British Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
External links
- Susan Hampshire at IMDb
- Susan Hampshire at the TCM Movie Database