Her next role was as the equestrienne Felicity in Sydney Pollack's Academy Award-winning Out of Africa, based on the memoirs of the famed Danish writer Isak Dinesen, and starring Meryl Streep, Robert Redford and Klaus Maria Brandauer.īy the latter half of the decade, the majority of her screen roles were in obscure European films made in exotic locations as well as numerous British television dramas. In 1985, Hamilton starred in British playwright David Hare's film Wetherby, opposite Vanessa Redgrave in this film, Hamilton's character, Karen Creasy, is the sullen former friend of a young man who committed suicide. However, her work was largely overshadowed by the death of fellow cast member Richard Burton, who delivered his final screen performance in the role of O'Brien, as well as the much-publicised post-release controversy over the film's musical score. This performance raised her profile as a film actress for a brief time and garnered critical praise, particularly from Vincent Canby in The New York Times.

She was one of the school's earliest alumni, and the theatre is acknowledged in the film's closing credits. She had been chosen for the role in 1983 after being referred by the casting agency of the Anna Scher Theatre School. Hamilton was cast as Julia opposite John Hurt as Winston Smith in Michael Radford's film of George Orwell's dystopian novel. The following year, Suzanna Hamilton was featured in BBC-TV's paranormal mystery, A Pattern of Roses, with a young Helena Bonham Carter. In this film, Hamilton starred as Patricia Bates, the traumatised, catatonic daughter of a devoutly religious, middle aged Home Counties couple ( Denholm Elliott and Joan Plowright) whose lives are changed by a demonic drifter and con man who calls himself Martin Taylor, played by Sting. Her next significant role was in Richard Loncraine's 1982 film, Brimstone & Treacle, based on Dennis Potter's play of the same name. She also appeared as one of the boarding school girls who organise a strike against the Ministry of Education in The Wildcats of St. For her first appearance in a big-budget film, Hamilton played Izz Huett, the lovesick dairymaid, in Roman Polanski's 1979 film Tess (based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles), which starred Nastassja Kinski in the title role. It was during this time in the mid-1970s that Hamilton received her acting training at the Anna Scher Theatre School in Islington and at the famous Central School of Speech and Drama in Swiss Cottage, Camden. Whatham later directed the teenage Suzanna Hamilton as Princess Alexandra in the BBC miniseries, Disraeli (1978), which was later broadcast to North American audiences as a featured programme on Masterpiece Theatre in 1980. Billed as Zanna Hamilton, the young actress was cast in the role of Susan Walker, one of four young siblings collectively known as 'the Swallows', who go on a camping and sailing holiday in the Lake District during the summer of 1929. Swallows and Amazons was filmed in 1973 and released to the public the following year. She appeared in her first feature, Swallows and Amazons, which was directed by Whatham and based on the popular children's book of the same name by Arthur Ransome. Suzanna Hamilton was born in London and was a protégée of filmmaker, Claude Whatham, who discovered her in a children's experimental theatre in North London in the early 1970s.

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