Susan Fleetwood Movies and Career Information

Susan Maureen Fleetwood (21 September 1944 in St. Andrews, Scotland – 29 September 1995 in Salisbury, England) was a leading British classical actress and star of the BBC television series Chandler & Co. Fleetwood was born in St. Andrews, Scotland, the daughter of Bridget Maureen (née Brereton) and John Joseph Kells Fleetwood, an RAF officer. She was a sister of musician and actor Mick Fleetwood. The service family was stationed in Egypt in the years before the Suez crisis and afterwards in Norway where John Fleetwood received a NATO appointment, and where Susan received her first role as the Old Testament Joseph in a school play. On her return to England she was encouraged to take up drama by a nun at a convent school, winning a scholarship to RADA at the age of sixteen. She never married, though she had a long relationship with director Sebastian Graham-Jones. She died in Salisbury, England, at the age of 51, after a ten-year battle with ovarian cancer. After training with RADA, where a student production won Fleetwood the Bancroft gold medal, in 1964 she joined the company of the Liverpool Everyman theatre, where her fellow student Terry Hands had been appointed director. When