Susannah York
Susannah York ( born Susannah Yolande Fletcher, born January 9, 1939 in London, England; † January 15, 2011 ibid ) was a British actress and author.
Life
Susannah York was born as the daughter of a commercial banker and a housewife. Her parents divorced when she was five years old. She grew up with her mother, who married a Scottish businessman in a second marriage and moved into his home country. At school, she was enthusiastic about working in the theater. After studying at Marr College in Troon, she studied from 1955 to 1958 the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ( RADA ) in London. Her film debut was in Einstein a hero on the side of Alec Guinness. Then she made in 1960 alongside Sean Connery as Abigail in Arthur Miller's The Crucible attention, a television adaptation of the series ITV Play of the Week. Two years later, York played her first lead role opposite Montgomery Clift in John Huston's film Freud, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for best actress in a drama. This was followed by roles in other award winning movie productions, including Tony Richardson's Tom Jones - Between the bed and the gallows (1963 ), Fred Zinnemann's A Man for All Seasons (1966) and the part of Alice in Robert Aldrich's drama The Killing of Sister George (1968).
The British Society of Film and Television Arts Award and a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination received Susannah York in 1970 for the supporting role of Alice in Sydney Pollack Drama Horses, Do it the coup de grace, an unsuccessful actress and Jean Harlow copy that participates in the time of the Great Depression at a dance marathon. In the Golden Globe and Oscar ceremony, but the York US-American Goldie Hawn had to admit defeat ( Cactus Flower ). In 1972 she received for Robert Altman's mirror images of the prize for Best Actress at the Film Festival of Cannes. For the fantasy film about a woman who is haunted by mysterious memories, she had also written the novel. Susannah York was counted in those days, acting colleagues like Vanessa Redgrave among the leading actresses of British cinema. The next three decades she has been active as an actress in film, television and theater, although they could not build on the previous successes. She acted in all genres, but mainly in the drama.
Susannah York was married from 1960 to 1980 with the actor and author Michael Wells. From this marriage the children Sasha (born 1972 ) and Orlando Wells (born 1973 ) emerged, which were later also an actor. In addition to working as an actress York, was a former member of the prestigious London drama school Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, successful in the 1970s as an author of children's books. In 1979, she was next to Françoise Sagan and Jules Dassin for the competition jury of the Cannes Film Festival, the Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Volker Schlöndorff's The Tin Drum distinguished the Palme d'Or. Almost thirteen years later they chose together with Annie Girardot and Michael Verhoeven Lawrence Kasdan's drama Grand Canyon - In the heart of the city at the best film of the Berlinale 1992.
Mid-January 2011, died York at the age of 72 years from the effects of cancer.