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Dame Janet Suzman, DBE (born 9 February 1939 [1]) is a South African-born British actress who had a successful early career in the Royal Shakespeare Company, later replaying many Shakespearean roles on television. In her first film, Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), her performance as Empress Alexandra Feodorovna earned her several honours ...
Janet Suzman is a South African-born British stage and screen star who has performed in Shakespeare, Chekhov, and other classics. She was nominated for an Oscar for her role as Czarina Alexandra in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) and directed several plays in South Africa.
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Dame Janet Suzman, is a South African-born British actress who had a successful early career in the Royal Shakespeare Company, later replaying many Shakespearean roles on television. In her first film, Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), her performance as Empress Alexandra Feodorovna earned her several honours, including a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Oct 1, 2023 · Dame Janet Suzman looks back on her role as Joan of Arc in the BBC adaptations of Shakespeare’s Wars of the Roses. Under the direction of John Barton and Peter Hall at the Royal Shakespeare ...
Apr 5, 2016 · RENOWNED ACTRESS AND director Dame Janet Suzman made her debut with the Royal Shakespeare Company 50 years ago in the Wars of the Roses. This amalgamation of four of William Shakespeare’s plays into a trilogy remains, Suzman told Index on Censorship, as potent a political tale in 2016 as it was when she was a young actress.
- Natasha Joseph
- 2016
May 16, 2024 · Dame Janet Suzman Janet Guzman, DBE, is a South African/British actress who enjoyed a successful early career in the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). She has always kept strong links with the country of her birth, South Africa, where she began her directing career with a production of Othello with John Kani, seen as a protest play, in 1987 at the Market Theatre.
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Nov 8, 2020 · A Portrait of the Actress. The first apartheid-era production of Othello with a Black man in its titular role was performed in South Africa in 1987. Xhosa actor John Kani had been cast into the part by novice director and close friend Janet Suzman, who broke the country’s colour- bar in a sensational and now-authoritative rendering of the play.
