Susan Hampshire
Susan Hampshire, OBE, ( born May 12, 1937th ( according to some sources: 1938 ) in London) is a British actress.
Biography
Susan Hampshire was since her childhood in London on the stage and made her film debut in a small role in the drama The fibber already in 1947. Starting from 1959 she appeared regularly in front of the camera in appearance. First it was the " fragile beauty " in films like Sidney J. Furies War Drama During a Night (1961 ), the psychological thriller handle out of the darkness with Albert Finney, the family movie The Three Lives of Thomasina Patrick McGoohan, or musical comedy Wonderful Life - Kiss me with music with Cliff Richard (all 1964). In the French comedy Paris in the month of August (1965 ), directed by Pierre Granier - Deferre, her future husband, she played the other hand, a mature, modern young woman who turned a family man 's head. The film also included a nude scene Susan Hampshire. During this time their contracts were offered by three production companies in Hollywood, which she refused because their so expensive cosmetic changes were also suggested, more or less.
Susan Hampshire became popular primarily as a busy actress in British television productions. Her most famous role was that of Fleur in the 26 fifty -minute episodes of the BBC adaptation of the Forsyte Saga to the trilogy of novels by John Galsworthy (1967 ) with Eric Porter, for which she won an Emmy. More Emmys they reaped for their representations of " Becky Sharp " in the miniseries based on the novel Vanity Fair Vanity Fair by William Thackeray (1967) and as " Sarah Churchill " in the mini-series The First Churchills (1969). Between 2000 and 2005, she played one of the main roles in the successful, based in Scotland series Monarch of the Glen.
Susan Hampshire was in 1967 married to divorce in 1974 with Pierre Granier - Deferre, with whom she has a son. A daughter died as a child. Since 1981 she is married to the Greek impresario Eddie Kulukundis.
In 1982, she described in her autobiography Susan 's Story her longtime struggle with dyslexia. For their efforts to educate the public about dyslexia, their psychological concomitants and the ways of treating Susan Hampshire was admitted to the Order of the British Empire in 1995.