Susannah Harker | |
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Born |
Susannah Owens 26 April 1965 London, England |
Occupation | Actress |
Spouse(s) | Iain Glen (m. 1993; div. 2004) |
Partner(s) | Paul McGann (2006–2008) |
Children | 1 |
Parent(s) |
Polly Adams Richard Owens |
Relatives | Caroline Harker (sister) |
Susannah Harker (born London, England) is an English film, television, and theatre actor. She was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award in 1990 for her role as Mattie Storin in House of Cards.
26 April 1965 inThe daughter of actress Polly Adams and actor Richard Owens, she is the sister of fellow actress Caroline Harker.
Harker and her younger sister, Caroline (also an actress on stage and screen), were brought up as Catholics and educated at a "strict" independent convent boarding school run by nuns in Sussex, and at the Central School of Speech and Drama in North London.
Harker has acted in both contemporary and classic works, on stage, in movies and in TV series. In 1990-91 she appeared alongside Clive Owen in Chancer. She later played Dinah Morris in the 1991 adaptation of Adam Bede. She starred as Jane Bennet in the 1995 TV adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. She is featured as Emma Fitzgerald, the love interest of Superintendent Tyburn (Trevor Eve) in the BBC TV series, Heat of the Sun (1998). She appeared in the play, On the Shore of the Wide World.
She played Sapphire in Big Finish Productions' audio revival of Sapphire & Steel, in three series of plays released on CD between 2005 and 2008. In 2003 she played Clare Keightley in the audio version of the Doctor Who adventure Shada, alongside Paul McGann. In December 2011 Harker appeared in the BBC drama Young James Herriot.