“Lindeman is a gamine goddess, part Audrey Hepburn, part Leslie Caron, and utterly captivating”
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Acclaimed for her dramatic and comedic roles on stage and screen - Susie Lindeman works internationally in Paris, London and Sydney in shows such as five West End productions and starring at the Sydney Opera House. Screen roles include Ruth in Palace of Dreams,for which she won the Penguin Award, Dolly in the BAFTA and Oscar-winning film HOWARDS END, the lead in the Prix Europa Award-winning film CATHERINE, to starring opposite the great Michael Gambon in MAIGRET AND THE MAID, and TOP OF THE LAKE , directed by Jane Campion. She's worked with French and Saunders and with London's famous Comedy Store Players. Recently onstage she starred as Sarah Bernhardt in SARAH Quand Même in its world-premiere in Paris and its centenary seasons. She starred in Awkward Dancing , Gielgud Theatre for the RADA Festival. Her writings include: "plenty more FISH in the sea" (Portobello Film Festival) "Persephone" a stage play, later adapted into a film, winning Gold at the Charleston International Film Festival. Feature screenplays include "A***Memoire" , (in development) adapted from Jean-Claude Carriere's play, and the soon to be filmed "Viv..." adapted from Donald Macdonald's play Letter To Larry. |
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Susie Lindeman with Michael Gambon on set Budapest.
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Susie Lindeman trained and began her career in Sydney, Australia with leading roles in mini-series, including: ROBBERY UNDER ARMS, (with Sam Neil), PALACE OF DREAMS (for which she won a Penguin Award) and MELBA (with Joan Greenwood and Hugo Weaving.) filming in London and Europe. Her London stage debut was in Sons of Cain, by David Williamson, in its West End premiere at the Wyndhams Theatre, in 1986.
Her UK breakthrough screen role the following year was as Catherine, in the award-winning Thames TV Film, CATHERINE, watched by over 7 million viewers, for which the press acclaimed her performance as Bafta-worthy.
She went on to play Dolly in Merchant Ivory’s Academy-Award and Bafta –winning HOWARDS END, and in the US productions, WILLIAM TELL and NIGHTFALL (directed by Paul Mayersberg) , Australian features FOR LOVE ALONE and RAZZLE DAZZLE and on TV as Felice the Maid opposite Michael Gambon in MAIGRET- AND THE MAID, (ITV) and THE VEILED ONE and also with French and Saunders in LET THEM EAT CAKE (BBC).
Her UK breakthrough screen role the following year was as Catherine, in the award-winning Thames TV Film, CATHERINE, watched by over 7 million viewers, for which the press acclaimed her performance as Bafta-worthy.
She went on to play Dolly in Merchant Ivory’s Academy-Award and Bafta –winning HOWARDS END, and in the US productions, WILLIAM TELL and NIGHTFALL (directed by Paul Mayersberg) , Australian features FOR LOVE ALONE and RAZZLE DAZZLE and on TV as Felice the Maid opposite Michael Gambon in MAIGRET- AND THE MAID, (ITV) and THE VEILED ONE and also with French and Saunders in LET THEM EAT CAKE (BBC).
With Rex Harrison in J.M. Barrie's The Admirable Chrichton
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Other West End roles include: The Admirable Crichton, with Rex Harrison and Edward Fox, Prin, with Sheila Hancock, and the Deep Blue Sea, with Penelope Wilton, directed by Karel Reisz.
Other STAGE includes: Six Characters In Search of An Author (STC at the Sydney Opera House , for which she was nominated for a Critics Circle Award) A Dolls House (Salisbury Playhouse) A Midsommer Nights’ Dreame, (with Greta Scacchi) for the Original Shakespeare Co, Sweet Phoebe (London and Brussels) Persephone (Sydney, Paris) Hammerklavier ( by, and as, Yasmina Reza. Sydney , Paris, Edinburgh Festival) Madame Melville, Happy As Larry and Viv (both at Sydney’s Belvoir St Theatre) The Marvellous Boy (Griffin Theatre , Sydney) The Imaginary Invalid (Ensemble Theatre) The Paris Letter, Poster Girl, 4.48 Psychosis (by Sarah Kane) Winter, by Jon Fosse, Hilda, by Marie N’Diaye, and, (at the Kings Head Theatre), Kafka In Love and Cosi. She originated the role of Vivien Leigh in Letter To Larry, a play by Donald Macdonald (London, Paris) with more seasons being planned. |
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Other FILMS include: RAZZLE DAZZLE, Louis and Louise, the filmed adaptation of PERSEPHONE (Winner Gold Award at the Charleston International Film Festival, https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/the-screen-guide/t/persephone-1996/11233/), Plenty More Fish In the Sea (Portobello Film Fest) What Grown Ups Know (Audience Award Mardi Gras Film Fest) and the Auction (Winner Funniest Film at the Sydney Comedy Festival)
She was a Reader for the Royal Court Theatre, London, for five years Her writing includes: stage plays Persephone , and A gap E and feature films: Passe–Partout (development) A***Memoire (in development) and Little Black Book (an adaptation of Jean-Claude Carriere’s play) as well as several short films, which she has also directed. Her screenplay for Viv... follows the seasons of Letter to Larry, by Donald Macdonald, inspiring more information at www.persophia.net She is a member of British Equity and MEAA (Australia) |
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