![]() ![]() In 1972, she won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in Images. She was highly praised for her performance, though she said "I don't think much of the film, or of myself in it." She did attend the ceremony but lost to Goldie Hawn for her role in Cactus Flower. She snubbed the Academy when, regarding her nomination, she declared it offended her to be nominated without being asked. York was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969). Scott (as Edward Rochester), playing the title role in an American television movie of Jane Eyre, and played opposite Peter O'Toole in Country Dance. She also appeared in The 7th Dawn (1964) with William Holden, Kaleidescope (1966), A Man for All Seasons (1966), The Killing of Sister George (1968) and Battle of Britain (1969). She had turned the part down three times and only agreed to participate because she felt guilty over cooking a disastrous meal for the director Tony Richardson, who was determined not to accept her refusal. York played Sophie Western opposite Albert Finney in the Oscar-winning Best Film Tom Jones (1963). ![]() In 1962, she performed in Freud: The Secret Passion with Montgomery Clift in the title role. In 1961, she played the leading role in The Greengage Summer, which co-starred Kenneth More and Danielle Darrieux. Her film career began with Tunes of Glory (1960), co-starring with Alec Guinness and John Mills. York with Montgomery Clift in Freud: The Secret Passion, 1962 At RADA, where her classmates included Peter O'Toole, Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay and future Beatles manager Brian Epstein, she won the Ronson award for most promising student before graduating in 1958. Įnthusiastic about her experiences of acting at school (she had played an ugly sister in Cinderella at the age of nine), York first decided to apply to the Glasgow College of Dramatic Art, but after her mother had separated from her stepfather and moved to London, she instead auditioned for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. At 13, she was removed, effectively expelled, from Wispers after admitting to a nude midnight swim in the school pool, and she transferred to East Haddon Hall in Northamptonshire. Later, she became a boarder at Wispers School in Midhurst, Sussex. At the age of 11, York entered Marr College in Troon, Ayrshire. Hamilton, and moved, with her daughter, to Scotland. In early 1943, York's mother married a Scottish businessman, Adam M. York had an elder sister, as well as a half-brother, Eugene Xavier Charles William Peel Fletcher, from her father's second marriage to Pauline de Bearnez de Morton de La Chapelle. Her maternal grandfather was Walter Andrew Bowring, CBE, a British diplomat who served as Administrator of Dominica (1933–1935) she was a great-great-granddaughter of political economist Sir John Bowring. They married in 1935, and divorced prior to 1943. York was born in Chelsea, London, in 1939, the younger daughter of Simon William Peel Vickers Fletcher (1910–2002), a merchant banker and steel magnate, and his first wife, the former Joan Nita Mary Bowring. She was appointed an Officier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1991. Her other film appearances included Sands of the Kalahari (1965), A Man for All Seasons (1966), The Killing of Sister George (1968), Battle of Britain (1969), Jane Eyre (1970), Zee and Co. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? She also won the 1972 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Images. ![]() York's early films included The Greengage Summer (1961) and Freud (1962). An obituary in The Telegraph characterised her as "the blue-eyed English rose with the china-white skin and cupid lips who epitomised the sensuality of the swinging sixties", who later "proved that she was a real actor of extraordinary emotional range". Her appearances in various films of the 1960s, including Tom Jones (1963) and They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), formed the basis of her international reputation. Susannah Yolande Fletcher (9 January 1939 – 15 January 2011), known professionally as Susannah York, was an English actress. ![]()
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