Kika Markham Movies and Career Information

Kika Markham (born 1942) is an English actress. Markham was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire. She is the daughter of actor David Markham and writer Olive Dehn (1914–2007). She has led a long career in the cinema, television, and theatre as an actress. Among her television appearances are roles in Minder, The Life and Times of David Lloyd George, Van der Valk, Cracker, and Agatha Christie's Poirot. Kika Markham married actor Corin Redgrave in Wandsworth, London in 1985. The couple had two sons, Harvey (born 1979) and Arden (born 1983). Markham and Redgrave appeared together twice on screen: firstly in Lynda La Plante's Trial and Retribution (2000) as a judge and barrister respectively; and later in the BBC's Waking The Dead (episode "Special Relationship: Part 1") as lovers suspected of the murder of a government advisor. Her sisters are the actor Petra Markham and the poet and dramatist Jehane Markham, wife of actor Roger Lloyd Pack, and Sonia.