1. Susan Hampshire is a three-time Emmy Award winner, winning for the television dramas, The Forsyte Saga in 1970, The First Churchills in 1971, and for Vanity Fair in 1973.
21 Facts About Susan Hampshire
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Susan Hampshire is known for her other television roles, such as The Pallisers, The Grand, and as Molly MacDonald in the long running BBC One drama Monarch of the Glen.
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Susan Hampshire's mother was a teacher and her father was a director of Imperial Chemical Industries, who was rarely at home, her parents having unofficially separated.
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Susan Hampshire's determined mother founded a small London school in 1928, The Hampshire, where Susan was taught.
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Susan Hampshire was diagnosed as dyslexic at the age of 30.
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Susan Hampshire took the title role in a dramatised version of Little Black Sambo recorded by the His Master's Voice Junior Record Club in 1961 and sang on The Midday Show when ITV Anglia began broadcasting in 1959.
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Susan Hampshire's first starring role was in the film During One Night in 1960.
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Susan Hampshire then took the leading role in a 1962 BBC adaptation of What Katy Did.
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Susan Hampshire co-starred with Cliff Richard in Sidney J Furie's 1964 musical Wonderful Life.
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Susan Hampshire later portrayed conservationist Joy Adamson in Living Free, the sequel to Born Free.
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Susan Hampshire is known for her work on television, appearing in several popular television serials, including The Andromeda Breakthrough in which she replaced Julie Christie who was not available for the show but had played the part of Andromeda in the first season of A for Andromeda.
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Susan Hampshire was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1992 when she was surprised by Michael Aspel at the Ritz Hotel.
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Susan Hampshire has been active on the stage, taking the lead roles in many leading plays.
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Susan Hampshire 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.
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Susan Hampshire is a patron of the British Homeopathic Association, HIV charity Body Positive Dorset, The National Osteoporosis Society, Dignity in Dying, children's education charity Life Education Wessex and Thames Valley and population concern charity Population Matters.
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Susan Hampshire is patron of Mousetrap Theatre Projects in London which supports theatre productions for the enjoyment of disadvantaged and disabled children.
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Susan Hampshire holds the position of vice-president at Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Ltd, UK.
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Susan Hampshire is a vice-president of The International Tree Foundation.
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Susan Hampshire was married to her first husband, the French film producer Pierre Granier-Deferre, from 1967 until 1974.
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Susan Hampshire was married to her second husband, Sir Eddie Kulukundis, the theatre impresario, from 1981 until his death in 2021.
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Susan Hampshire was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1995 Birthday Honours, for services to dyslexic people.