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Susannah York
Known for: ActingSusannah York (9 January 1939 – 15 January 2011) was a British film, stage and television actress. She was awarded a BAFTA as Best Supporting Actress for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) and was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe for the same film. She won best actress for Images at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. In 1991 she was appointed an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Her appearances in various hit films of the 1960s formed the basis of her international reputation,and an obituary in The Telegraph characterised her as "the blue-eyed English rose with the china-white skin and cupid lips who epitomised the sensuality of the swinging Sixties". Description above from the Wikipedia article Susannah York, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Superman
Superman II
as Lara
Franklyn
as Margaret
A Man for All Seasons
as Margaret More
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
as Alice LeBlanc
Battle of Britain
We'll Meet Again
as Dr Helen Dereham
A Christmas Carol
The Silent Partner
as Julie
Conduct Unbecoming
as Marjorie Scarlett
Images
as Cathryn
Freud: The Secret Passion
as Cecily Koertner
Mio in the Land of Faraway
as The Weaver Woman
The Awakening
as Jane Turner
The Shout
as Rachel Fielding
Tom Jones
as Sophie Western
Oh! What a Lovely War
as Eleanor
Kaleidoscope
as Angel McGinnis
Gold
The 7th Dawn
as Candace Trumpey
Falling in Love Again
Sands of the Kalahari
as Grace Munkton
Tunes of Glory
Loophole
Jane Eyre
That Lucky Touch
as Julia Richardson
A Summer Story
as Mrs. Dora Narracombe
Melancholia
as Catherine Lanham Franck
Just Ask for Diamond
as Lauren Bacardi
The Book of Eve
as May
The Maids
as Claire