Susan Brown (actress, 1946)
Susan Elizabeth Brown (born May 6, 1946 in Bristol , England ) is a British stage actress and film actress since the 1970s . Since the turn of the millennium, she has also occasionally worked as a radio play and voice actor . Outside of the theater scene, she is arguably best known for her roles in Torchwood : Children of the Earth (2009), The Iron Lady (2011), Game of Thrones (2011) and Broadchurch (2013).
She has been nominated for Tony ( Angels in America ) and Olivier ( Home, I'm Darling ) awards for her successful performances on the West End and Broadway stages .
Life
Susan Brown grew up in the south-west English coastal city of Bristol and attended the London drama school Rose Bruford College after graduating. She began her professional career on stage in plays such as Die Wildente ( Donmar Warehouse ), Heinrich IV. Part 1 & 2 , Playing with Fire , Cardiff East and The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (at the Royal National Theater ), Easter , Romeo and Juliet , Richard III. and Bad Weather (with RSC ), Road , Shirley , Downfall , Gibraltar Straight and Seagulls ( Royal Court Theater ), Butterfly Kiss ( Almeida Theater ), Bernarda Albas Haus and Die Stühle ( Gate Theater ), You Be Ted and I ' ll Be Sylvia (Hampstead), Playing Sinatra (Croydon Warehouse and Greenwich Theater), The Beaux 'Stratagem , Back to Methuselah , The Vortex , The Way of the World and A Woman Without Meaning (Cambridge Theater Company), Was ihr wollt (English Touring Theater), Small Change , Iphigenia ( Sheffield Crucible ) and Angels in America (Royal National Theater), for which she was honored with a Tony nomination after a guest performance by the ensemble on New York's Broadway . Her performance in the drama Home, I'm Darling , which premiered in Wales in 2018 , earned her an Olivier nomination after the West End transfer the following year .
Brown played Mrs Dimmock in an episode of Lovejoy ("The Peking Gun") in October 1993. Internationally, Brown is better known for her performance as Septa Mordane in the first season of the HBO series Game of Thrones . Your character died in the season finale. In The Iron Lady , she played Margaret Thatchers with house carer June. She also appeared in the BBC drama series Call the Midwife and Torchwood .
Filmography (selection)
- 1976: Barney Miller (TV series)
- 1987: Hope and Glory (Hope and Glory)
- 1988: Andy Capp (TV series)
- 1989: Work Experience (short film)
- 1991: Prime Suspect ( Prime Suspect , TV series)
- 1993: The Riff-Raff Element
- 1995: A Touch of Frost (TV series)
- 1998: Taggart (TV series)
- 2002: Wire in the Blood (TV series, episodes 1x01–1x02)
- 2004: Dalziel and Pascoe (TV series, episode 8x02)
- 2009: Torchwood (TV series)
- 2011: Game of Thrones (TV series)
- 2011: Waking the Dead ( Waking the Dead , TV series)
- 2012: The Iron Lady (The Iron Lady)
- 2012: Now Is Good - Every Moment Counts (Now Is Good)
- 2013: Broadchurch (TV series)
- 2013: Dido Elizabeth Belle (Belle)
- 2013: Call the Midwife ( Call the Midwife , TV series)
- 2019: Good Omens (TV series, episode 1x01)
Stage (selection)
| year | Ensemble / theater | piece | role | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) | Bad Weather | |||
| English Touring Theater | Twelfth Night ( William Shakespeare , UA 1602) | |||
| Royal Court Theater | Seagulls | |||
| Sheffield Crucible | Small change | |||
| Iphigenia | ||||
| Donmar Warehouse ( London ) | The Wild Duck ( Henrik Ibsen , UA 1885) | OT Vildanden , German title Die Wildente | ||
| Royal National Theater ( London ) | 1 Henry IV ( William Shakespeare , WP 1597) | German title Heinrich IV., part 1 | ||
| 2 Henry IV ( William Shakespeare , WP 1597) | German title Heinrich IV., part 2 | |||
| Gate Theater | The Chairs ( Eugène Ionesco , Premiere 1952) | OT Les Chaises , German title Die Stühle | ||
| before 1997 | Bush Theater ( London ) | Roosters | ||
| before 1997 | ICA ( London ) | By George! | George Sand | |
| before 1997 | Half Moon Theater ( London ) | Cheapside | ||
| before 1997 | Crucible Theater ( Sheffield ) | One Reputedly Glamorous Woman | Ruth Ellis | |
| before 1997 | Royal Lyceum Theater ( Edinburgh ) | Hamlet ( William Shakespeare , UA 1602) | Gertrude | |
| before 1997 | The Rep ( Birmingham ) | King Lear ( William Shakespeare , UA 1606) | Regan | German title King Lear |
| before 1997 | RSC ( Stratford-upon-Avon ) | Easter | Mrs. Heyst | |
| before 1997 | Romeo and Juliet ( William Shakespeare , UA 1591-1595) | nurse | German title Romeo and Juliet | |
| before 1997 | Richard III ( William Shakespeare , UA ca.1592) | Queen Elizabeth | ||
| before 1997 | Royal Court Theater | Road (Jim Cartwright, WP 1986) | premiere | |
| before 1997 | Shirley | |||
| before 1997 | Downfall | |||
| before 1997 | Gibraltar Straight | |||
| before 1997 | Gate Theater | The House of Bernarda Alba ( Federico García Lorca , WP 1945) | Poncia | OT La Casa de Bernarda Alba. Drama de mujeres en los pueblos de España German title Bernarda Albas Haus. Tragedy of women in the villages of Spain |
| before 1997 | Croydon Warehouse and Greenwich Theater | Playing Sinatra (Bernard Kops, WP 1991) | ||
| before 1997 | Cambridge Theater Company | The Beaux 'Stratagem ( George Farquhar , UA 1707) | Mrs. Sullen | |
| before 1997 | Back to Methuselah ( Bernard Shaw , WP 1922) | Eve & Lilith | ||
| before 1997 | The Vortex ( Noël Coward , WP 1924) | Helen | ||
| before 1997 | The Way of the World ( William Congreve , WP 1700) | Millament | ||
| before 1997 | A Woman of No Importance ( Oscar Wilde , UA 1893) | Mrs. Arbuthnot | German title A woman without meaning | |
| 1994 | Almeida Theater | Butterfly Kiss ( Phyllis Nagy , WP 1994) | premiere | |
| 1997 | Royal National Theater (London) | Cardiff East ( Peter Gill , WP 1997) | Marge (Tommy's mother / Michael's sister) | World premiere (at Cottesloe Theater) |
| 1999 | Hampstead Theater ( London ) | You Be Ted and I'll Be Sylvia (Simon Smith, WP 1999) | Stella | premiere |
| 2005 | Royal National Theater (London) | Playing with Fire ( David Edgar , WP 2005) | premiere | |
| 2008 | The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other ( Peter Handke , WP 1992) | OT The hour when we didn't know about each other | ||
| 2015 | Husbands and Sons (Ben Power after DH Lawrence , UA 2015) | Mrs. Gascoigne | Premiere; in coproduction with the Royal Exchange Manchester | |
| 2017 | Royal National Theater (London, later guest appearance in NYC ) | Angels in America ( Tony Kushner , WP 1991) | Ethel Rosenberg , Hannah Pitt, Henry, Rabbi Chemelwitz, Aleksii | Tony Awards 2018, for "Hannah Pitt et al" (nominated) |
| 2018-2019 | Theatr Clwyd ( Wales ), then National Theater and finally Duke of York's Theater ( London ) | Home, I'm Darling (Laura Wade, UA 2018) | Premiere; Olivier Awards 2019 (nominated) |
Radio plays
| year | title | role | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Doctor Who: 100 | Midwife / Mary | |
| 2008 | Doctor Who: Return of the Crotons | Eleanor Harvey | |
| 2010 | Doctor Who: The Prison in Space | Chairman Babs | |
| 2010 | Doctor Who: Castle of Fear | Maud the Withered | |
| 2010 | Doctor Who: The Eternal Summer | Alice Withers | |
| 2010 | Doctor Who: Plague of the Daleks | Mrs Withers / Mrs Sowerby / Computer Voice |
Video games
| year | title | role |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | LittleBigPlanet 3 | Nana Pud |
| 2015 | Everybody's Gone to the Rapture | Wendy Boyles |
| 2014–16 | Dreamfall Chapters | Queenie / The Mole / Lady Alvane |
Web links
- Susan Brown in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hamilton Hodell - Susan Brown's Agency page
- TV.com profile
Individual evidence
- ^ Susan Brown profile . Brainyhistory.com. May 6, 1946. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
- ^ Susan Brown in the Internet Movie Database , accessed January 30, 2016.
- ^ Cardiff East by Peter Gill, Cottesloe, 1997 . Dspace.dial.pipex.com. Archived from the original on August 5, 2011. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
- ^ Company Members: Susan Brown . National Theater. Archived from the original on February 7, 2012. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
- ↑ Susan Brown . Corrie.net. May 6, 1946. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
- ^ John Pavel: Sheffield Star interview with Susan Brown . Dspace.dial.pipex.com. Archived from the original on March 5, 2012. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
- ^ John Pavel: Small Change by Peter Gill, Crucible Studio, Sheffield, 2002 . Dspace.dial.pipex.com. Archived from the original on March 5, 2012. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brown, Susan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brown, Susan Elizabeth (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British stage actress and film actress since the 1970s |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bristol , England |