Susannah York

Susannah York was one of the great English screen presences of the 1960s, and I never tire of her work from that period. Tom Jones is all mischief and charm, but it is They Shoot Horses, Don't They? that floors me, her unraveling in that dance marathon is heartbreaking and earned her an Oscar nomination. She had this luminous, slightly unguarded quality on camera that made her impossible to look away from. She kept working on stage and as a writer right up to her death in 2011, and the Chelsea-born actress remains, for me, a defining face of British cinema's golden run.

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Name (English)

Susannah York

Name (Japanese)

スザンナ・ヨーク

Reading

すざんな・よーく

Born

January 9, 1939 – January 15, 2011

Origin

Chelsea, United Kingdom

Occupation

film actor / writer / stage actor / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rabbit

University

Marr College

Awards & achievements

• Officer of Arts and Letters

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susannah%20York
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B6%E3%83%B3%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A8%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q225509

Tags

• film actor
• writer
• stage actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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