Susannah Wise
Biography
Susannah Walker Wise is an English television and stage actress.
She trained as an actress at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, graduating in 1995. Wise is best known for her work in the soap opera EastEnders and the Channel 4 comedy Peep Show. On stage, she has had roles in Christopher Shinn's Where Do We Live and in Nina Raine's Rabbit. She also played Rebecca Shaw in the Channel 4 series Derek. She appeared in the final episode of Kavanagh QC, starring John Thaw, in 2001. In 2015 she portrayed Sylvie in the Mystery miniseries The Enfield Haunting. In 2020 she appeared as Emily Helmsley in Father Brown episode 8.10 "The Tower of Lost Souls".
Her debut novel This Fragile Earth was released in 2021, her second novel Okay Then That’s Great in 2022. Both books have been longlisted for the Mslexia prize
Known For
Acting History
2025
Art Detectives as Marie Claes
2020Roadkill as Jessie Coomer
2020Trying as Denise
2016Take Down as Agent Jess Chambliss
2015Chewing Gum as Louise
2014Original Drama Shorts as Janet
2013Toast of London
2013Derek as Rebecca
2013Jo
2013Father Brown as Emily Helmsley
2012A Doll's House as Kristine Linde
2012Call the Midwife as Hilary
2009U Be Dead as Laura
2007The Time of Your Life as Susan
2007The Time of Your Life as Susan
2006Soundproof as Anna
2006The IT Crowd as Samantha
2006Manilla Envelopes
2003Peep Show as Heather
2003Three Sisters as Natasha
2001In a Land of Plenty as Alice Freeman
2000Britannic as Nurse
1999An Ideal Husband as Young Mother
1997Midsomer Murders as Liz Francis
1996The Tenant of Wildfell Hall as Milicent Hargrave
1996Eskimo Day as Miss Wilding
1987The Ruth Rendell Mysteries as Shop Assistant
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