Susan Fleetwood
Biography
Susan Fleetwood was a British actress known for her stage work and for the television series Chandler & Co and The Buddha of Suburbia. Born in St Andrews, Fife, she was steered toward drama by a nun at her convent school, and at sixteen she won a place at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. A student production there earned her the Bancroft gold medal, and in 1964 she joined the Liverpool Everyman theater company, following its director Terry Hands to the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967. At Stratford in 1968 she played Cassandra in Troilus and Cressida and Regan in Lear, and the following year she doubled as Thaisa and Marina in Pericles. She was Imogen in Cymbeline in 1974, and in 1977 Peter Hall brought her to the National Theatre, where she played Ophelia opposite Albert Finney's Hamlet. Her final RSC season came in 1990 and 1991, and she died in 1995.
51years old at death
- Born St Andrews
- Died Salisbury
- Star sign: VirgoThe sign runs August 23 to September 22
- Also credited as Susan Maureen Fleetwood
Movie Career
- Films
- 8
- Career span
- 14 years1981 to 1995
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Early training
Fleetwood joined the Liverpool Everyman theater company in 1964, following her fellow RADA student Terry Hands, who had been appointed its director.
Big break
Peter Hall persuaded Fleetwood to leave the RSC for the National Theatre company in 1977, where she played Ophelia to Albert Finney's Hamlet.
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Worked with
Susan Fleetwood shares two films with Greta Scacchi, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
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Desmond DavisDirector, 1 film, 1981
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