Susan Brown (English actress)

Not to be confused with Susan Brown (American actress).

Susan Elizabeth Brown (born 6 May 1946) is an English actress of stage and screen.^[1][2] She had roles in the film The Iron Lady (2011) and the first season of the television series Game of Thrones (2011).

Susan Brown
Brown in 2018
Born	Susan Elizabeth Brown (1946-05-06) 6 May 1946 (age 79) Bristol, England
Education	Rose Bruford College
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1959–1960, 1971–present

Brown has been nominated for a Tony Award for her performance in the 2018 revival of the play Angels in America and a Laurence Olivier Award for her performance in the 2018 play Home, I'm Darling.

Biography

Brown was born in Bristol, England. Before starting her professional career, Brown trained at Rose Bruford College. She has appeared in such stage productions as The Wild Duck (Donmar Warehouse), Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, Playing with Fire, Cardiff East^[3] and The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (National Theatre),^[4] Easter, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III and Bad Weather (RSC), Road,^[5] Shirley, Downfall, Gibraltar Strait and Seagulls (Royal Court), Butterfly Kiss (Almeida), The House of Bernarda Alba and The Chairs (Gate Theatre), You Be Ted and I'll Be Sylvia (Hampstead), Playing Sinatra (Croydon Warehouse and Greenwich Theatre), The Beaux' Stratagem, Back to Methuselah, The Vortex, The Way of the World and A Woman of No Importance (Cambridge Theatre Company), Twelfth Night (English Touring Theatre), Small Change,^[6][7] Iphigenia (Sheffield Crucible) and Angels in America.

Brown played "Mrs Dimmock" a widow who comes across an oriental cannon, in an episode of Lovejoy, "The Peking Gun", in October 1993. To international audiences, Brown is perhaps best known for her role as Septa Mordane in the first series of Game of Thrones. Her character was killed off in the concluding episodes of the series. She had a supporting role as Margaret Thatcher's live-in carer June in The Iron Lady and has had small roles in BBC drama series Call the Midwife and Torchwood.

Filmography

Audio

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Doctor Who: 100	Midwife/Mary
2008	Doctor Who: Return of the Krotons	Eleanor Harvey
2010	Doctor Who: The Prison in Space	Chairman Babs
2010	Doctor Who: Castle of Fear	Maud the Withered
2010	Doctor Who: The Eternal Summer	Alice Withers
2010	Doctor Who: Plague of the Daleks	Mrs Withers/Mrs Sowerby/Computer Voice

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1960	The Road to Carey Street	Rosemary	TV film
1987	Hope and Glory	Mrs. Evans
1989	Work Experience	Mrs. Percival	Short
1998	Anorak of Fire	Mrs. Gascoigne	TV film
2002	A Matter of Taste		Short
2003	The Brides in the Bath	Mrs. Crossley	TV film
2004	When Hitler Invaded Britain	Clara Milburn	TV film
2006	Pinochet in Suburbia	Female Lawyer	TV film
2008	Brideshead Revisited	Nurse
2011	The Iron Lady	June
2012	Now Is Good	Shirley
2013	Belle	Baroness Vernon
2017	National Theatre Live: Angels in America: Perestroika	Hannah Pitt
	National Theatre Live: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
2024	Mary	Anna the Prophetess

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1959	Private Investigator	Mary	Episode: "A Shield for Caroline"
	Ask for King Billy	Girl	Episode: "Part 5"
1960	ITV Play of the Week	Theresa	Episode: "All Summer Long"
1971	Public Eye	Girl in Garage	Episode: "And When You've Paid the Bill, You're None the Wiser"
1972	Man at the Top	Mrs. Naughton	Episode: "High Stakes"
	Armchair Theatre	Naafi Girl	Episode: "The Breaking of Colonel Keyser"
	New Scotland Yard	Jean Gorton	Episode: "Papa Charlie"
1973	Then and Now	Annie	Episode: "In Memoriam"
1973-1974	The Kids from 47A	Miss Hayes	9 episodes
1974	Within These Walls	Joan Harrison	Episode: "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back"
1975	The Hanged Man	Anna Kreidner	Episode: "The Bridge Maker"
1976	The Duchess of Duke Street	Ivy	2 episodes
1977	Rooms	Pat Spooner	3 episodes
1979	The Other Side	Joyce	Episode: "Underdog"
1981	Fanny by Gaslight	Mrs. Hopwood	Mini-series
1985	Up the Elephant and Round the Castle	Mrs. Fowler	Episode: "The Pied Piper of Hamlet"
	Coronation Street	Connie Clayton	Series regular
1986	Kit Curran	Wendy Lowe	Episode: "Blind Date"
	Slinger's Day	Gladys Singer	Episode: "Going Bananas"
1987	ScreenPlay	Helen	Episode: "Road"
1988	Andy Capp	Ruby	Series regular
	This Is David Lander	Joan Trescot	Episode: "The Rocketing Cast of Defence"
1989	ScreenPlay	Tracy	Episode: "Loving Hazel"
1990	Chain	Mrs. Elliott	Episode: "Vicky Elliott"
	Kappatoo	Mrs. Cotton	2 episodes
	The Paradise Club	Audrey	Episode: "Old Pals"
1990-1991	Making Out	Avril	Series regular
1991	The Bill	Margaret Randle	Episode: "Too Many Chiefs"
	Prime Suspect	Linda	Episode: "Price to Pay: Part 2"
	The Sharp End	Mrs. Swales	1 episode
	Screen One	Mrs. Tribbly	Episode: "Prince"
	Performance	Maria	Episode: "Nona"
1992	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries	Brenda Harrison	Episode: "Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part One"
	The Bill	Mary Cox	Episode: "A Friend in Need"
	Casualty	Julie	Episode: "Will You Still Love Me?"
1993	Stay Lucky	Barbara	2 episodes
	Lovejoy	Mrs. Dimmock	Episode: "The Peking Gun"
	The Bill	Janie Pickett	Episode: "Outbreak"
1993-1995	September Song	Cilla	Series regular
1994	Ben Elton: The Man from Auntie	Glenda Toughbitch	1 episode
	A Pinch of Snuff	Betsy Heppelwhite	Mini-series
	The Riff Raff Element	Maggie Belcher	Series regular
1995	A Touch of Frost	Stella Boxley	Episode: "No Refuge"
	Casualty	Joan Hawley	Episode: "Heartbreak Hotel"
1997	Wokenwell	Jacqui Clovis	1 episode
	The Bill	Cheryl Walker	Episode: "Heartbreak Hotel"
1998	Taggart	Jan Dickson	Episode: "Out of Bounds"
1999	Where the Heart Is	June Wrekin	Episode: "Moving On"
	The Bill	Jan Beckett	Episode: "Cracked Up"
	Dangerfield	Mrs. Bassett	Episode: "Forbidden Fruit"
2000	Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)	Deirdre Hope	Episode: "A Blast from the Past"
	Peak Practice	Clare Bain	Episode: "Walls of Jericho"
2001	The Vice	Brothel Madam	Episode: "Out of Mind"
	Best of Both Worlds	Annie Sullivan	Mini-series
	Holby City	Avril Welbeck	Episode: "Family Ties"
2002	Wire in the Blood	Jean Lawson	Episode: "Justice Painted Blind"
2003	Blue Dove	Sylvie Brennan	Mini-series
2004	Dalziel and Pascoe	ACC Alex Lawrence	Episode: "The Price of Fame"
	La Femme Musketeer	Cecile D'Artagnan	Mini-series
	Rose and Maloney	Wendy Sillery	Series regular
2006	Coronation Street	Maureen Tully	2 episodes
2007	Holby City	Nora Simpson	Episode: "Paranoid Android"
2009	Torchwood	Bridget Spears	Torchwood: Children of Earth
2010	Doctors	Brenda Napier	Episode: "Ghosts"
	Holby City	Rachel Jacoby	Episode: "Together Alone"
2011	Waking the Dead	Sue Myers	Episode: "Harbinger"
	Game of Thrones	Septa Mordane	6 episodes
	Midsomer Murders	Leticia Clifford	Episode: "The Sleeper Under the Hill"
2012	Stella	Senior Magistrate	1 episode
	Silent Witness	Judge Royston	Episode: "Paradise Lost"
2013	Call the Midwife	Mrs. Peacock	1 episode
	Broadchurch	Liz Roper	Series regular
2014	Father Brown	Ethel Fernsley	Episode: "The Shadow of the Scaffold"
	Casualty	Pauline Heggarty	Episode: "Who Cares?"
	Atlantis	Pemphredo	Episode: "The Grey Sisters"
2015	Partners in Crime	Mrs Harrison	Episode: "N or M?"
2017	Holby City	Mrs. Birdie Thompson	2 episodes
2019	Good Omens	Mother Superior	Episode: "In the Beginning"
2021	It's a Sin	Mrs. Bowen	2 episodes
2022	The Crown	Lady Dugdale	Episode: "Gunpowder"
2024	Mr Bates vs The Post Office	Min Howard	4 episodes

Video games

Year	Title	Role
2012	The Secret World	Dame Julia Beatrix Tyburn / Cucuvea / Olga Dimir
2014	Dreamfall Chapters	Queenie / The Mole / Lady Alvane
	LittleBigPlanet 3	Nana Pud
2015	Everybody's Gone to the Rapture	Wendy Boyles
2018	Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales	Isbel of Hagge
2021	It Takes Two	Stargazer

Theatre credits

Year	Play	Role	Venue	Notes
1986	Road	Brenda/Molly/Helen/Marion	Royal Court Theatre, London
1987	Downfall	Hettie	Royal Court Theatre, London
1989	The Way of the World	Millament	Young Vic, The Cut, London	with Cambridge Theatre Company
1990	Gibraltar Strait	Mrs Farrell/Carmen Proetta	Royal Court Theatre, London
1992	Playing Sinatra	Sandra	Greenwich Theatre, London
	The House of Bernarda Alba	La Poncia	Gate Theatre, London
1994	Butterfly Kiss	Jenny Ross	Almeida Theatre, London
1995	Easter	Mrs. Heyst	The Pit, London	with Royal Shakespeare Company
1996	Romeo and Juliet	Nurse	Barbican Theatre, London	with Royal Shakespeare Company
	Richard III	Queen Elizabeth	Barbican Theatre, London	with Royal Shakespeare Company
1997	Cardiff East	Marge	Royal National Theatre, South Bank, London
1998	Bad Weather	Kay Tonnerre	The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon	with Royal Shakespeare Company
1999	You'll Be Ted and I'll Be Sylvia	Stella	Hampstead Theatre, South Hampstead, London
2002	Small Change	Mrs. Harte	Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
2003	We Happy Few	Hettie Oaks	Malvern Theatres, Malvern
	Iphigenia	Clytemnestra	Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
2004	Twelfth Night	Maria	UK Tour	with English Touring Theatre
2005	The Wild Duck	Mrs. Sorbie	Donmar Warehouse, Covent Garden, London
	Playing with Fire	The Mayor	Royal National Theatre, South Bank, London
	Henry IV, Part 1 & Part 2	Mistress Quickly	Royal National Theatre, South Bank, London
2008	The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other	Ensemble	Royal National Theatre, South Bank, London
	Harper Regan	Alison Wooley	Royal National Theatre, South Bank, London
2009	The Contingency Plan	Tessa	Bush Theatre, Shepherd's Bush, London
2011	Saved	Mary	Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London
2012	Goodbye to All That	Iris	Royal Court Theatre, London	part of "Royal Court Young Writers' Festival"
	Making Noise Quietly	May Applewood	Donmar Warehouse, Covent Garden, London
2013	If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep	Joan	Royal Court Theatre, London
	Julius Caesar	Casca	St. Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn, New York City
2014	Good People	Dotty	Noël Coward Theatre, London
2015	Image of an Unknown Young Woman	Candace	Gate Theatre, London
	Husbands & Sons	Mrs. Gascoigne	Royal National Theatre, South Bank, London
2017	Angels in America	Hannah Pitt	Royal National Theatre, South Bank, London & Neil Simon Theatre, Midtown Manhattan, New York City
2019	Home, I'm Darling	Sylvia	Duke of York's Theatre, London	also, UK tour
2021	Under Milk Wood	Various roles	Royal National Theatre, South Bank, London

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2018	Tony Awards	Best Featured Actress in a Play	Angels in America	Nominated
2019	Laurence Olivier Awards	Best Actress in a Supporting Role	Home, I'm Darling	Nominated