Susan Penhaligon was born on 3 July 1949 and is an English actress and writer known for her role in the drama series Bouquet of Barbed Wire, and for playing Helen Barker in the sitcom A Fine Romance.
11 Facts About Susan Penhaligon
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Penhaligon was the eldest child of Bill, an engineer for the Shell Oil Company, and Jean Penhaligon who ran a bed and breakfast.
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Susan Penhaligon has two brothers and a sister in the USA.
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Susan Penhaligon was a cousin of the late David Penhaligon, a former Liberal member of parliament in Cornwall.
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Susan Penhaligon appeared in The Maintenance Man at the Comedy Theatre in 1987, and played Curley's Wife in a 1984 production of Of Mice and Men at the Mermaid Theatre.
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Susan Penhaligon has toured the UK extensively, appearing in productions of The Constant Wife, Mrs Warren's Profession, Death Trap, Agatha Christie's Verdict, Dangerous Obsession with Simon Ward, and Lord Arthur Saville's Crime by Oscar Wilde.
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Susan Penhaligon was in Time and the Conways, Lower Depths and The Cherry Orchard, and played a leading part in Arthur Miller's Broken Glass at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds.
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Susan Penhaligon has been in three episodes of Doctors and three episodes of Casualty.
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Susan Penhaligon played Jean Hope in UK soap Emmerdale, for a year.
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Susan Penhaligon lost out to Welsh actress, Angharad Rees for the part of the miner's daughter and servant girl Demelza, who marries her master Ross Poldark.
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Susan Penhaligon played the role of the sole survivor of LANSA Flight 508, Juliane Koepcke in the film Miracles Still Happen, directed by Giuseppe Maria Scotese.