Susannah York

Past Productions

After winning an award as most promising student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Susannah was cast as Alec Guinness’ daughter in her first feature Tunes of Glory. Since then she has starred in over sixty internationally released films, including John Houston’s Freud with Montgomery Clift, The Greengage Summer, Tom Jones with Albert Finney, A Man For All Seasons with Paul Scofield, The Killing of Sister George with Beryl Reid, Country Dance with Peter O’Toole, Jane Eyre with George C Scott, The Shout with Alan Bates, Superman I and II with Marlon Brando and Christopher Reeve, The Maids with Glenda Jackson,_ X, Y and Z_ with Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Caine.

She was nominated for an Oscar and won a BAFTA as Best Supporting Actress, for They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, and was awarded the Palme D’Or as Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in Robert Altman’s Images.

She has appeared in many dramas on television, starring opposite Sean Connery in The Crucible, as Lorraine in Noel Coward’s Star Quality, and in the popular television series We’ll Meet Again, The Prince Regent, and Second Chance.

On the international scene, theatre roles have included Hedda Gabler in New York, Blanche in Appearances at the Jean-Louis Barrault Theatre in Paris, Amanda in Private Lives in Sydney and Melbourne, Feste in Twelfth Night in Budapest. Her many West End credits include Millie Teale in Wings Of A Dove, J P Donleavy’s _ A Singular Man_, Peter Pan, The Applecart, An Ideal Husband, and September Tide.

For the RSC she was Gertrude in Hamlet, Mistress Ford in The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Marguerite Gautier in Camino Real, and a plethora of women in The Hollow Crown. She has toured her one-person show The Loves Of Shakespeare’s Women through the UK, USA, Australia, Greece, Hungary and Georgia, and a lively career on the fringe has allowed her to direct there, as well as play.

Susannah has been a juror at the Cannes, Edinburgh and Berlin Film Festivals, and in 1993 was made Officier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. She was a director of the Children’s Film Unit, and a trustee for the Campaign to Free Vanunu for many years, and produced a show The Big One in the late ‘80s for the Peace Movement, later editing the book of the show. She has also written two children’s books, In Search Of Unicorns and Lark’s Castle, as well as a companion book to her one-woman show The Loves Of Shakespeare’s Women. She is currently working on two screenplays.