Janet Suzman Biography
Janet Suzman whose full name is Dame Janet Suzman was born on 9th February 1939 in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is a South African and British actress and director.She is a patron of the London International Festival of Theatre.
Janet Suzman Education Background
She attended independent school Kingsmead College,Johannesburg.
She was an undergraduate student at the University of the Witwatersrand, where she studied English and French.
Janet Suzman Career
Janet Suzman trained for the stage at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and she made her debut as Liz in Billy Liar at the Tower Theatre, Ipswich, in 1962.
In 1963, she became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. From 1962 to 1964 he played the role of Joan of Arc in The Wars of The Roses.
The Royal Shakespeare Company gave her the opportunity to play many of the Shakespearean heroines, including Rosaline in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Ophelia in Hamlet, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Celia and Rosalind in As You Like It, Lavinia in Titus Andronicus and her Cleopatra, magisterial, ardent and seductive.she also appeared in plays by Genet, Pinter, Ronald Harwood, Nicholson, Albee and others.
Janet Suzman Filmography
Janet Suzman Television role
1964: Festival as Luciana
1965: The Wars of the Roses as Lady Anne/Joan la Pucelle.
1966: Lord Raingo as Delphine
1966: Theatre 625 as Edith Swan-Neck/Mary
1968: Saint Joan
1970: The Three Sisters
1970: Solo as Charlotte Brontë
1970: Macbeth
1972: Hedda Gabler
1972: Nicholas and Alexandra
1973: Twelfth Night
1974: Antony and Cleopatra as Cleopatra.
1974: Don Siegel’s The Black Windmill
1976: Clayhanger as Hilda Lessways/Hilda Clayhanger.
1979: The House on Garibaldi Street as Hedda.
1980: Escape as Wendy Woods
1983: And the Ship Sails On as Edmea Tetua
1985: The Last Viceroy
1986: Dennis Potter’s as The Singing Detective
1988: The Miser (the BBC’s Theatre Night)
1992: Horizon as the Narrator.
1992: The Secret Agent as Margaret, Duchess of Chester
1993: Inspector Morse as Dr Claire Brewster
1997: Ruth Rendell Mysteries as Cecily Branksome
2002: The Windsors – A Royal Family (Documentary) as the narrator.
2005: Hiroshima
2006- 2007: Trial & Retribution as Winifred Morgan QC
2008: The Color of Magic as Ninereeds
2010: Midsomer Murders as Lady Matilda William
2011: Tinga Tinga Tales as the Ostrich
2012: Sinbad as Grandmother/Safia
2012: Labyrinth as Esclarmonde
2012: Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson
Janet Suzman Movies
- 2013: Felix as Mrs Cartwright
- 1992: Leon the Pig Farmer as Judith Geller
- 1990: Nuns on the Run
- 1989: A Dry White Season as Susan du Toit
- 1982: The Draughtsman’s Contract as Virginia Herbert.
- 1981: Priest of Love as Frieda Lawrence
- 1980: Nijinsky as Emilia Marcus
- 1976: Clayhanger as Lady Mountbatten in Lord Mountbatten
- 1976: Voyage of the Damned as Leni Strauss
- 1974: The Black Windmill as Alex Tarrant.
- 1972: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg as Sheila
- 1971: Nicholas and Alexandra as Alexandra.
Janet Suzman Honors
He was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to drama.
She is an Honorary Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute, and was awarded the Pragnell Award for lifetime services to Shakespeare in 2012.
Janet Suzman Family
Her parents are Betty and Saul Suzman, a wealthy tobacco importer. Her grandfather is Max Sonnenberg, who was a member of the South African parliament. She is a niece of Hellen Suzman, the late civil rights/anti-apartheid campaigner.
Janet Suzman was married to Trevor Nunn from 1969 but divorced in 1986. They had one son Joshua.
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