Suzanna Hamilton

Suzanna Hamilton is an English actress who trained at Islington's Anna Scher Theatre School and later attended the Central School of Speech and Drama. Filmmaker Claude Whatham discovered her at a children's experimental theater in north London and became her mentor, casting her in her first feature, Swallows and Amazons (1974). She played Izz Huett in Roman Polanski's Tess (1979) and took the part of Julia opposite John Hurt in Michael Radford's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), a performance that drew praise from Vincent Canby. Her other films include Brimstone and Treacle, David Hare's Wetherby (1985), Sydney Pollack's Out of Africa (1985), Tale of a Vampire (1992) and The Island on Bird Street (1997). On television she appeared in Wish Me Luck, Casualty and McCallum, and she made her West End debut in 1982 in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing.