Susan Wooldridge is the daughter of British actress Margaretta Scott

Margaretta Scott

Margaretta Scott was an English stage, screen and television actress whose career spanned over seventy years. She is best remembered for playing the eccentric widow Mrs...

 and composer John Wooldridge

John Wooldridge

Wing Commander John De Lacy Wooldridge, DSO, DFC and Bar, DFM, was a British film composer.- Early life :Wooldridge was born in Yokohama, Japan and was educated at St Paul's School, London...

. She is also the sister of Hugh Wooldridge

Hugh Wooldridge

Hugh Wooldridge was born in London, England, UK, the son of British composer John Wooldridge and actress Margaretta Scott. He is the brother of actress Susan Wooldridge...

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She was born in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

, and educated at convent schools.

Wooldridge has been acting since 1972. Her big break came in 1984 with The Jewel in the Crown, in which she played the pivotal character of Daphne Manners whose affection for the handsome Hari Kumar doomed him. For this role she received a BAFTA nomination. She has appeared in many British film productions, including Hope and Glory.

She also appeared in many US/British TV productions, such as Dame Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Christie DBE was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections , and her successful West End plays.According to...

's mystery, Dead Man's Folly (1986) which starred Sir Peter Ustinov

Peter Ustinov

Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE was an English actor, writer and dramatist. He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer, author, screenwriter, comedian, humourist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television presenter...

, Jean Stapleton, Tim Pigott-Smith

Tim Pigott-Smith

Tim Pigott-Smith is an English film and television actor.-Early life:Pigott-Smith was born in Rugby, Warwickshire, the son of Margaret Muriel and Harry Thomas Pigott-Smith, who was a journalist. He was educated at Wyggeston Boys' School, Leicester, King Edward VI School Stratford-upon-Avon, and...

, and Constance Cummings

Constance Cummings

Constance Cummings, CBE was an American-born British actress, known for her work on both screen and stage.Born Constance Halverstadt in Seattle, Washington, the daughter of Dallas Vernon Halverstadt, a lawyer, and his wife, Kate Logan Cummings, a concert soprano. she began as a stage actress,...

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She has appeared on such British TV series as A TV Dante

A TV Dante

A TV Dante is a 1989 film directed by Tom Phillips and Peter Greenaway. It covers eight of the thirty-four Cantos in Inferno ....

 (1989), as well as several episodes of the British TV series The Courtroom

The Courtroom

The Courtroom is a British legal drama created by Phil Redmond, which aired between June and December 2004.The programme was notable for starring many former British soap stars, particularly those who starred in Redmond's other productions Brookside and Hollyoaks....

' as Vanessa Archer.

In July 2009, her first novel, The Hidden Dance, was published in the United Kingdom by Allison & Busby.

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