Biography
Susannah York (9 January 1939 – 15 January 2011) was a British 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 at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. In 1991 she was appointed an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Her appearances in various hit films of the 1960s formed the basis of her international reputation,and an obituary in The Telegraph characterised her as "the blue-eyed English rose with the china-white skin and cupid lips who epitomised the sensuality of the swinging Sixties". Description above from the Wikipedia article Susannah York, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- Officer of Arts and Letters
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actress · 1970 · nominated
Filmography37 titles
The Divine Michelangelo
A Christmas Carol
A Man for All Seasons
Superman
The Silent Partner
Jane Eyre
Tunes of Glory
The Ray Bradbury Theater
Battle of Britain
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!
Superman II
Images
The Dick Cavett Show
Oh! What a Lovely War
Freud
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
The 7th Dawn
Sands of the Kalahari
Casualty
Loophole
A Summer Story
Franklyn
Romance and Rejection (So This Is Romance?)
Melancholia
Mio in the Land of Faraway
The Shout
Conduct Unbecoming
Tom Jones
Falling in Love Again
Gold
Just Ask for Diamond
Yellowbeard
The Maids
The Awakening
Loop
Illusions
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace