Profile
Susannah York
Film + Stage and Television Actress
Female
Born
Jan 9, 1939
Hometown
Chelsea, London
Died
Jan 15, 2011
Nationality
British
Other Names
Fletcher, Susanna...
Ethnicity
White British
Susannah York was an English film, stage and television actress. She was awarded a BAFTA as Best Supporting Actress for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) and was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe for the same film. She won best actress for Images… Read More
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Michael WellsMarried 1960 - 1976
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Susannah York
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1939
Birth
York was born Susannah Yolande Fletcher in Chelsea, London, in 1939, the younger daughter of Simon William Peel Vickers Fletcher (1910–2002), a merchant banker and steel magnate, and his first wife, the former Joan Nita Mary Bowring – they married in 1935 and divorced prior to 1943.
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1943
4 Years Old
In early 1943, her mother married a Scottish businessman, Adam M. Hamilton, and moved, with her daughter, to Scotland.
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TEENAGE
1958
19 Years Old
There she won the Ronson award for most promising student before graduating in 1958.
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TWENTIES
1960
21 Years Old
In 1960, York married Michael Wells, with whom she had two children, daughter Sasha (born May 1972) and son Orlando (born June 1973). They divorced in 1976.
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1961
22 Years Old
In 1961, she played the leading role in The Greengage Summer, which co-starred Kenneth More and Danielle Darrieux.
1962
23 Years Old
In 1962, she performed in Freud: The Secret Passion with Montgomery Clift in the title role.
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THIRTIES
1972
33 Years Old
In 1972, she won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in Images.
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FORTIES
1984
45 Years Old
In 1984, York starred as Mrs. Cratchit in A Christmas Carol (1984), based on the novel by Charles Dickens.
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FIFTIES
1992
53 Years Old
In 1992, she was a member of the jury at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.
LATE ADULTHOOD
2003
64 Years Old
In 2003, York had a recurring role as hospital manager Helen Grant in the BBC1 television drama series Holby City.
2004
65 Years Old
She reprised this role in two episodes of Holby Citys sister series Casualty in May 2004.
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In 2007, she appeared in the UK tour of The Wings of the Dove, and continued performing her internationally well received solo show, The Loves of Shakespeare's Women.
2008
69 Years Old
In 2008, she played the part of Nelly in an adaptation by April De Angelis of Wuthering Heights.
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2009
70 Years Old
In 2009, she starred alongside Jos Vantyler in the Tennessee Williams season at the New End Theatre, London for which she received critical acclaim.
2010
71 Years Old
York's last stage performance was as Jean in Ronald Harwood's Quartet, at the Oxford Playhouse in August 2010.
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2011
72 Years Old
York died at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London from advanced bone marrow cancer on 15 January 2011, six days after her 72nd birthday.
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