Susannah Yolande Fletcher, known professionally as Susannah York, was an English actress.
24 Facts About Susannah York
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Susannah York was appointed an Officier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1991.
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Susannah York was born in Chelsea, London, in 1939, the younger daughter of Simon William Peel Vickers Fletcher, a merchant banker and steel magnate, and his first wife, the former Joan Nita Mary Bowring.
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Susannah York's maternal grandfather was Walter Andrew Bowring, CBE, a British diplomat who served as Administrator of Dominica ; she was a great-great-granddaughter of political economist Sir John Bowring.
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Susannah York had an elder sister, as well as a half-brother, Eugene Xavier Charles William Peel Fletcher, from her father's second marriage to Pauline de Bearnez de Morton de La Chapelle.
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At the age of 11, Susannah York entered Marr College in Troon, Ayrshire.
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Enthusiastic about her experiences of acting at school, Susannah York first decided to apply to the Glasgow College of Dramatic Art, but after her mother had separated from her stepfather and moved to London, she instead auditioned for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
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Susannah York played Sophie Western opposite Albert Finney in the Oscar-winning Best Film Tom Jones.
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Susannah York had turned the part down three times and only agreed to participate because she felt guilty over cooking a disastrous meal for the director Tony Richardson, who was determined not to accept her refusal.
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Susannah York appeared in The 7th Dawn with William Holden, Kaleidescope, A Man for All Seasons, The Killing of Sister George and Battle of Britain.
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Susannah York snubbed the Academy when, regarding her nomination, she declared it offended her to be nominated without being asked.
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Susannah York played Superman's mother Lara on the doomed planet Krypton in Superman and its sequels, Superman II and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.
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Susannah York made extensive appearances in British television series, including Prince Regent, as Maria Fitzherbert, the clandestine wife of the future George IV, and We'll Meet Again.
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In 1984, Susannah York starred as Mrs Cratchit in A Christmas Carol, based on the novel by Charles Dickens.
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Susannah York again co-starred with George C Scott, David Warner, Frank Finlay, Angela Pleasence and Anthony Walters.
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In 2003, Susannah York had a recurring role as hospital manager Helen Grant in the BBC1 television drama series Holby City.
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Susannah York reprised this role in two episodes of Holby City's sister series Casualty in May 2004.
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Susannah York was a patron of the Children's Film Unit and appeared in several of their films.
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In 1978, Susannah York appeared on stage at the New End Theatre in London in The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs with Lucinda Childs, directed by French director Simone Benmussa.
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Susannah York was a guest, along with David Puttnam on the BBC Radio 4 documentary I Had The Misery Thursday, a tribute programme to film actor Montgomery Clift, which was aired in 1986, on the 20th anniversary of Clift's death.
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Susannah York had co-starred with him in Freud: The Secret Passion, John Huston's 1962 film biography of the psychoanalyst.
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Susannah York's first grandchild by way of Orlando was born in 2007.
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Politically, Susannah York was left-leaning, and publicly supported Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli dissident who revealed Israel's nuclear weapons programme.
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Susannah York died at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London from multiple myeloma on 15 January 2011, six days after her 72nd birthday.