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Susan Penhaligon

 

Susan Penhaligon was brought up in Cornwall and trained at the Webber Douglas Academy in London.  Her first appearance in the theatre was playing Juliet in Romeo and Juliet at the Connaught theatre, Worthing and since then she has worked extensively in theatre, film and television.

 

Her early TV credits include Upstairs Downstairs, Tales of the Unexpected, Bergerac, Remmington Steele, Casualty, Inspector Wycliffe and Doctor Who. She played Bianca in the Taming of the Shrew for the BBC’s Shakespeare season and Frank Finlay’s spoilt daughter Prue, in the hugely successful A Bouquet of Barbed Wire. Other leading parts were in Fay Weldon’s Heart of the Country and in Stan Barstow’s A Kind of Loving.  She played Lucy in Dracula for the BBC and Judi Dench’s sister Helen in four series of the award winning sitcom, A Fine Romance.  Most recently she has appeared in Doctors and played the regular role of Jean Hope in Emmerdale.  

 

Her West End credits include, Three Sisters, (Albery Theatre), The Real Thing (The Strand Theatre) The Mysterious Mr Love and The Maintenance Man both at the Comedy Theatre, Dangerous Corner (The Whitehall Theatre) and Of Mice and Men (The Mermaid Theatre)

 

Among her many touring appearances are Having a Ball, Dangerous Obsession, Bedroom Farce, Mindgame, The Constant wife, Mrs Warren’s Profession, Death Trap Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, Murder on Air – the Agatha Christie Radio Plays.

 

She appeared three times at the Palace Theatre Watford in The Complacent Lover, The Girl in Melanie Klein and as Nora in A Doll’s House.  She was in two seasons at The Royal Exchange Manchester appearing in Time and the Conways, Lower Depths and The Cherry Orchard.  At the Birmingham Rep she was in David Lodge’s The Writing Game and at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass. Last year she was at the Mill At Sonning, playing the lead role of Alma in one of Ben Travers’ final plays The Bed Before Yesterday.

 

On the fringe she appeared in Abducting Diana (Edinburgh Festival), Annie Wilkes in Misery (King’s Head Theatre), the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet (Jermyn Street Theatre) and as Sarah Golden in Prophecy (The New End Theatre).

Her films include leading roles in, The Uncanny, The Land that Time Forgot, No Sex Please We’re British, Leopard in the Snow, Nasty Habits, Patrick, Soldier of the Queen and Private Road. And most recently two short films, Citizen versus Kane and Say you Love Me.

 

Last year, Susan published her first novel, For the Love of Angel (Truran Books) a story set down in Cornwall in the 1880’s.