Dear Jai,
I've scanned the net as well as several databases and found very
little information about Hamilton, especially very little about her
private life (birthday does not appear anywhere). So far, her agency
also haven't provided me with new details (but I promise you to update
you once they do).
The information listed here is about all of the information found that
was not stated in the IMDB biography (which is, by the way, pretty
comprehensive).
Suzanna Hamilton began her acting career at a rather young age: by the
age of 13-14 she did "Swallows & Amazons". She was credited then as
"Zanna Hamilton". She had played since in various stages: movies, TV
theatre and radio (participating in several radio dramas). In recent
years she is more concentrated in theatre, allegedly following the
birth of her son.
Theatre
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January 1993 - "Waiting At the Water's Edge" Bush Theatre, London
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Reviews:
Ian Shuttleworth, "Waiting At the Water's Edge", City Limits Magazine,
quoted in Shuttleworth's homepage
<http://www.cix.co.uk/~shutters/reviews/93028.htm>
May- June 2002 - "Ion", Gate Theatre, London.
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Reviews:
Michael Billington, "Ion", Guardian Unlimited, Tuesday May 7, 2002
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,3604,710908,00.html>
Vera Lustig, "Curate's-egg production of one of Euripides' problem
plays." Reviews Gate,
<http://www.reviewsgate.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=537>
Elizabeth Shenton, "Ion", Online Review London,
<http://www.onlinereviewlondon.com/reviews/ion.html>
Her most recent public activity was in March, when she appeared in "Airswimming".
February - March 2005 : Airswimming, at Playhouse, Salberg Studio Salisbury
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Reviews:
Lesley Bates, "Airswimming", The Stage,
<http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/6529/airswimming>.
James Harrison, "Airswimming in Salisbury", BBC Wiltshire, 08/03/05
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/articles/2005/03/03/airswimming_playhouse_030305_feature.shtml>
Gay Pirrie-Weir, "Pick of the week", ic Wessex, 17 February 2005,
<http://icwessex.icnetwork.co.uk/artsbriefing/tm_objectid=15200720&method=full&siteid=109536&headline=pick-of-the-week-name_page.html>
Radio
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January 12th, 1988 - "Impressions Of An English Inner-City American
Tap Dancer": "?Someone out there in the big wide world, someone is
holding a glass slipper for me.? Laura teaches American tap at a
London community centre. Her most promising pupil is Berni, but it
looks as though the centre will be closed." (listed in: "Richard
Wortley: SOME REFLECTIONS ON A LIFETIME IN RADIO - Epilogue, and a
list of Plays", <http://web.ukonline.co.uk/suttonelms/richardwortley18.html
>).
April 7th, 1999 - "Woman of Ice" - part of Bryony Lavery Radio Plays :
"An archaeologist discovers a frozen princess in the Altai Mountains.
With Suzanna Hamilton and Matilda Ziegler; dir. Janet Whitaker"
<http://web.ukonline.co.uk/suttonelms/blavery.html >
20 November - 18 December 2000 - "Peril At End House" /Broadcast in 5
parts. (Weekly), BBC Radio 4: "Poirot and Hastings are holidaying in
the Cornish village of St. Loo. They meet Miss Nick Buckley, owner of
the remote and lonely End House. She tells that she enjoys living
there, despite the fact that she has had three near fatal accidents
within a few days. When a fourth near fatal accident occurs in their
presence, Poirot & Hastings become involved.
featuring Simon Williams (Captain Hastings), Bryan Pringle (Inspector
Japp), Gemma Saunders (Nick Buckley), Suzanna Hamilton (Frederica
Rice), Terence Edmond (Mr Croft), Richenda Carey (Mrs Croft), Stephen
Critchlow (Charles Vyse) & Sean Arnold (Jimmy Lazarus)."
(SOURCE: "Hercule Poirot on BBC Radio",
<http://www.geocities.com/gregorym101/poirot2.html>).
December 2003 - "Out of the Ashes", BBC Radio 4: "R4, 3 Dec 03, 45m.
Paul is a troubled 15-year old and Dan is a 55 year old fireman on the
brink of retirement. Their paths cross when Paul is sent on a fire-
fighting scheme for adolescent arsonists. With Danny Young as Paul,
Kenneth Cranham as Dan; also stars Suzanna Hamilton, Daniel Anthony,
Nick Roud, Harl Sajjan, Rachel Atkins, Lydia Leonard, Billy Sargent;
directed by Pauline Harris." <"Louise Gooding radio drama - DIVERSITY"
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/suttonelms/lgooding.html>
16 January 2004 - "Dolphin Therapy", BBC Radio 4: "Alex Ferns and
Chris Langham star in this satirical comedy about a man who finds a
cure for his depression in the form of a vicious and foul-mouthed
Glaswegian dolphin. Nat Segnit?s Dolphin Therapy is both a biting
satire on therapy culture and animal sentimentalism, and a joyfully
absurd take on the dreariness of modern existence Gwyn hates his home,
hates his job and is convinced that his girlfriend, Anne, is having an
affair. When he loses his job, Anne persuades him to give dolphin
therapy a try. Dosed up on Prozac, Gwyn heads to the swimming pool,
where a surprise awaits him. Chris Langham plays Gwyn, Alex Ferns
plays Dean and Suzanna Hamilton plays Anne. The cast also includes
Damian Lynch, Frances Jeater, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Declan Wilson, Chris
Moran and Lydia Leonard. Comedy writer and performer Nat Segnit is
currently working on his first novel, Unfunny, about a comedienne?s
relationship with a shape-shifting monster. Producer/Jeremy Mortimer
BBC Radio 4 Publicity" (SOURCE: BBC Site, " Radio Pi Wk2",
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/docs/bbcradiowk2_days.pdf>:
PDF document).
"
July 2004 - "A Dangerous Game", BBC Radio 4 (2 episodes): "By Shirley Cooklin
When a paroled murderer kills after his release, British justice is
put on hold. A prisoner caught in a Home Office freeze on new paroles
challenges the ruling, and demands a psychological profile from a
hard-line woman psychiatrist. Their meetings prove explosive. With
Suzanna Hamilton, Ray Lonnen, Roger May, Terence Edmond, Karen Ford,
David Thorpe, Geoffrey Whitehead, and Andrew Wincott. Directed By Ned
Chaillet." (SOURCE: BBC Radio 4 Website,
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/fridayandsaturday_plays.shtml>).
April 2004 - " A Child In The Forest", BBC Radio Four, "Suzanna
Hamilton plays Mam - a serious woman, full of energy but often
exhausted by the end of the day." (SOURCE: BBC Radio 4,
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/aboutradio4/diary/143.shtml>).
The site Holby.TV (see further reference later, regarding quotes from
interviews and other details), claims that she'd appeared on a radio
drama called "Remember Mum" [sic], but I couldn?t find an evidence for
that anywhere except on this site.
Suzanna Hamilton
<http://www.holby.tv/db/index.php?id=38,157,1,0,1,0>
Audio Book
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Read Julian Barnes' "Talking it Over" (1992) in two cassettes
together with others:
Talking Book Club, <http://www.talkingbookclub.co.uk/cgi-bin/catalog.pl?dataset=books1&id=0187&action=details>
Books
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The only book, mentioned as containing interviews and photos of her,
is the book of the TV series "Casualty", in which she participated:
'CASUALTY : The Inside Story (Revised & Updated)
<http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140249028/qid=1118339050/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/202-9903203-4084665>
Movies
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The only movie that was not featured in IMDB's list is "It's not
unusual", a short film from 1996:
"It's not unusual ( UK 1996 ) 35mm: 11 min. Director: . An Indian
mother bringing up her daughter single-handedly in West London is also
a Tom Jones obsessed cab driver, who gets the ride of her life.
Producer: Asmaa Pirzada.. Cast: Meera Syal, Leslie Grantham, John
McArdle, Suzanna Hamilton. BAFTA: Best Short Film" (SOURCE: Film
Centre, "It's not unusual"
<http://www.filmcentre.co.uk/search.asp?str=It~s_not_unusual>).
Quotes/Interview
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"ON CHARACTER KAREN : 'She's the sort of person you might get to like
after you'd known her for a couple of weeks, or you might not click
with her at all.. certainly I love looking good, I have been known to
spend all day getting ready to go out in the evening. But what
attracts me to Karen is that I'd have loved to be a doctor in real
life.'
ON BEING A DOCTOR : 'I would like to have trained as a doctor, it's a
completely different way of life from mine. I found I wasn't squeamish
and I watched operations. It was fascinating.'
ON BEING IN CASUALTY : 'There's a strange moment that everyone
experiences, it comes when you sit in the canteen and see an atrocious
head wound opposite you eating curry and chips.'
ON WEARING NO MAKE UP FOR THE ROLE : 'I thought at first that would be
a relief, but starting work at 8.30am, some days looking like death, I
could do with make-up - the works.'"
(SOURCE: "Suzanna Hamilton" from Holby.TV,
<http://www.holby.tv/db/index.php?id=38,157,1,0,1,0>).
Private Life
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As I said before, it seems that Ms. Hamilton is very keen on keeping
her life private. It is known (besides what is written at the IMDB
website) that:
- She has a partner called Steve (SOURCE: Holby.TV, Casualty,
<http://www.holby.tv/db/index.php?id=38,157,1,0,1,0>).
- She allegedly dated, in 1980, Danny Furious of the punk band the
Avengers. In an interview, Danny Furious was quoted to have said:
"I fell in love with an English actress by the name of SUZANNA
HAMILTON and we moved in together but ultimately my addiction got the
best of me and, in Sept 80 I flew back to San Francisco and moved in
with Jimmy and my friend Mark Hubbard and took up where I had left
off... drug wise" (SOURCE: Karl Backman, 2004. "Danny Furious of the
Avengers Interviewed", Summer of Hate,
<http://www.acc.umu.se/~samhain/summerofhate/avengersinterview2.html>).
- When she was pregnant with her son Lowell (b. 5 October 1993), she
was shooting episodes of "Casualty". Holby.TV reports that:
"The cameramen needed patient skill too because Suzanna Hamilton, soon
found she was expecting a baby. In the script Karen became exhausted
from trying to work and swot for exams, so Mike ordered her to take
study leave. In her place at Christmas came Dave Masters." (SOURCE:
Casualty Series 8, <http://www.holby.tv/db/index.php?id=10,1296,0,0,1,>).
Misc. Images
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Hamilton appears four times in the collections of London's National
Portrait Gallery. The images are not available online, but one could
order them from the National Portrait Gallery Website.
National Portrait Gallery - Suzanna Hamilton
<http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp70079>
Hamilton also appears online in reference to her nude appearance on
"1984" and "Brimstone and Treacle". Since we cannot post here links to
"adult" oriented site, I'll only note that the site
celebritymoviearchive.com has a listing of those.
This is the information I managed to dig out several databases and the
Internet. I?ve contacted her agent, but since no information has been
sent to me to date, I would leave here his address, in case you?d be
more persuasive than I was.
Emptage Hallett
phone: 0207-287 5511
fax: 0207-287 4411
email: michaelh@emphall.demon.co.uk
address: 24 Poland Street, London, W1V 3DD, UK
I hope this answers your question. Please contact me if you need any
clarification on this answer before you rate it. My search strategy
was to search for various variations of her name and of her
activities, and quite frankly: simply to scan and read whatever there
was on my databases. |
