# Susan Brown (English actress)

Susan Elizabeth Brown (born 6 May 1946) is an English actress of stage and screen. She had roles in the film The Iron Lady (2011) and the first season of the television series Game of Thrones (2011).
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 and The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (National Theatre), Easter, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III and Bad Weather (RSC), Road, 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, 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 |
| 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 | |
| 2017 | National Theatre Live: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches | Hannah Pitt | |
| 2024 | Mary | Anna the Prophetess |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1959 | Private Investigator | Mary | Episode: "A Shield for Caroline" |
| 1959 | 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" |
| 1972 | Armchair Theatre | Naafi Girl | Episode: "The Breaking of Colonel Keyser" |
| 1972 | 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" |
| 1985 | Coronation Street | Connie Clayton | Series regular |
| 1986 | Kit Curran | Wendy Lowe | Episode: "Blind Date" |
| 1986 | Slinger's Day | Gladys Singer | Episode: "Going Bananas" |
| 1987 | ScreenPlay | Helen | Episode: "Road" |
| 1988 | Andy Capp | Ruby | Series regular |
| 1988 | 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" |
| 1990 | Kappatoo | Mrs. Cotton | 2 episodes |
| 1990 | The Paradise Club | Audrey | Episode: "Old Pals" |
| 1990-1991 | Making Out | Avril | Series regular |
| 1991 | The Bill | Margaret Randle | Episode: "Too Many Chiefs" |
| 1991 | Prime Suspect | Linda | Episode: "Price to Pay: Part 2" |
| 1991 | The Sharp End | Mrs. Swales | 1 episode |
| 1991 | Screen One | Mrs. Tribbly | Episode: "Prince" |
| 1991 | Performance | Maria | Episode: "Nona" |
| 1992 | The Ruth Rendell Mysteries | Brenda Harrison | Episode: "Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part One" |
| 1992 | The Bill | Mary Cox | Episode: "A Friend in Need" |
| 1992 | Casualty | Julie | Episode: "Will You Still Love Me?" |
| 1993 | Stay Lucky | Barbara | 2 episodes |
| 1993 | Lovejoy | Mrs. Dimmock | Episode: "The Peking Gun" |
| 1993 | The Bill | Janie Pickett | Episode: "Outbreak" |
| 1993-1995 | September Song | Cilla | Series regular |
| 1994 | Ben Elton: The Man from Auntie | Glenda Toughbitch | 1 episode |
| 1994 | A Pinch of Snuff | Betsy Heppelwhite | Mini-series |
| 1994 | The Riff Raff Element | Maggie Belcher | Series regular |
| 1995 | A Touch of Frost | Stella Boxley | Episode: "No Refuge" |
| 1995 | Casualty | Joan Hawley | Episode: "Heartbreak Hotel" |
| 1997 | Wokenwell | Jacqui Clovis | 1 episode |
| 1997 | 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" |
| 1999 | The Bill | Jan Beckett | Episode: "Cracked Up" |
| 1999 | Dangerfield | Mrs. Bassett | Episode: "Forbidden Fruit" |
| 2000 | Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) | Deirdre Hope | Episode: "A Blast from the Past" |
| 2000 | Peak Practice | Clare Bain | Episode: "Walls of Jericho" |
| 2001 | The Vice | Brothel Madam | Episode: "Out of Mind" |
| 2001 | Best of Both Worlds | Annie Sullivan | Mini-series |
| 2001 | 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" |
| 2004 | La Femme Musketeer | Cecile D'Artagnan | Mini-series |
| 2004 | 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" |
| 2010 | Holby City | Rachel Jacoby | Episode: "Together Alone" |
| 2011 | Waking the Dead | Sue Myers | Episode: "Harbinger" |
| 2011 | Game of Thrones | Septa Mordane | 6 episodes |
| 2011 | Midsomer Murders | Leticia Clifford | Episode: "The Sleeper Under the Hill" |
| 2012 | Stella | Senior Magistrate | 1 episode |
| 2012 | Silent Witness | Judge Royston | Episode: "Paradise Lost" |
| 2013 | Call the Midwife | Mrs. Peacock | 1 episode |
| 2013 | Broadchurch | Liz Roper | Series regular |
| 2014 | Father Brown | Ethel Fernsley | Episode: "The Shadow of the Scaffold" |
| 2014 | Casualty | Pauline Heggarty | Episode: "Who Cares?" |
| 2014 | 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 |
| 2014 | 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 | |
| 1992 | 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 |
| 1996 | 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 | |
| 2003 | 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 | |
| 2005 | Playing with Fire | The Mayor | Royal National Theatre, South Bank, London | |
| 2005 | 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 | |
| 2008 | 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" |
| 2012 | 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 | |
| 2013 | 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 | |
| 2015 | 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 | |