19 Facts About Suzanna Hamilton

Suzanna Hamilton has had numerous television roles such as the ITV drama Wish Me Luck, the BBC medical drama Casualty, and the STV drama McCallum.

In 1973, Hamilton received acting training at the Anna Scher Theatre School in Islington.

Suzanna Hamilton was a student at the Central School of Speech and Drama in Swiss Cottage, Camden.

Suzanna Hamilton became a protegee of filmmaker Claude Whatham, who discovered her in a children's experimental theatre in North London in the early 1970s.

Suzanna Hamilton appeared as one of the boarding school girls who organise a strike against the Ministry of Education in The Wildcats of St Trinian's.

Suzanna Hamilton starred as Patricia Bates, the traumatised, catatonic daughter of a devoutly religious, middle aged Home Counties couple whose lives are changed by a demonic drifter and con man who calls himself Martin Taylor, played by Sting.

Suzanna Hamilton was a member of the BBC's Radio Drama Company.

Suzanna Hamilton was cast as Julia opposite John Hurt as Winston Smith in the Michael Radford film Nineteen Eighty-Four, based on the eponymous George Orwell dystopian novel.

Suzanna Hamilton obtained the role through the casting agency of the Anna Scher Theatre School.

Suzanna Hamilton was one of the school's earliest alumni, and the theatre is acknowledged in the film's closing credits.

In 1985, Suzanna Hamilton starred in British playwright David Hare's film Wetherby, opposite Vanessa Redgrave.

Also in 1986, Suzanna Hamilton starred in the well-received television drama Johnny Bull, a film developed at the National Playwrights' Conference of the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center and filmed in Tennessee.

That same year, Suzanna Hamilton appeared as Emily Barkstone in Hold the Dream, the second of the three BBC miniseries based on Barbara Taylor Bradford's popular "Emma Harte" novels about the fortunes of a retail empire and the machinations of the business elite across three generations.

Suzanna Hamilton acted in the 1990 British television film, Small Zones, as a strong-willed Russian poet whose subversive writings have led to her indefinite imprisonment in a Soviet holding cell.

Suzanna Hamilton played the role of Regine Kleinschmidt in the TV movie Murder East, Murder West, set just before and just after the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

Suzanna Hamilton had a supporting role in a 1992 TV film of Barbara Cartland's Regency-period bodice-ripper, Duel of Hearts.

Suzanna Hamilton made her first West End appearance on the London stage in 1982 as part of the original cast production of Tom Stoppard's play, The Real Thing.

Suzanna Hamilton appeared in a 1991 audiobook recording of Julian Barnes' novel about a love triangle called Talking It Over and has been in many radio dramas.

Suzanna Hamilton spent a short time away from acting in major films to bring up her son but continued to feature in television roles and in theatre and voice work.