Suzanna Hamilton

Acting

Suzanna Hamilton

Born 1960-02-08 · London, England, UK

Suzanna Hamilton (born 8 February 1960) is an English actress. She is known for her performance as Julia in the 1984 film adaptation of George Orwell's classic novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Her other film roles include Tess (1979), Brimstone and Treacle(1982), Wetherby (1985) and Out of Africa (1985). On television, she starred in the ITV drama Wish Me Luck (1988), the BBCmedical drama Casualty (1993–94) and the STV drama McCallum (1995–97).

Acting credits

Nineteen Eighty-Four poster
6.8

Winston Smith is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country's leaders in a charitable light. His trysts with Julia provide his only measure of enjoyment, but lawmakers frown on the relationship -- and in this closely monitored society, there is no escape from Big Brother.

Nineteen Eighty-Four

1984

Out of Africa poster
7.2

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.

Out of Africa

1985

Tess poster
7.1

A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumour that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge.

Tess

1979

The Island on Bird Street poster
7.3

Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.

The Island on Bird Street

1997

Pina poster
NR

Pina, a 62-year-old lawyer, is in denial about her increasing dementia and is desperate to convince her colleague that she can still work.

Pina

2026

Devil's Paradise poster
5.7

At the start of the 20th century, a man lives in solitude on an island. One day on the mainland, he saves a young woman from some nasty folk and takes her with him to his island. Her former captors soon find the island as well.

Devil's Paradise

1987

No artwork available
8.0

This Cold War dramatic thriller tells the passionate story of three people caught in a murderous web of deceit and revenge on both sides of the former Germany. Edgar Rutchinski, who has made a living smuggling refugees, finds his past catching up with him in the shape of the ex-girlfriend he thought was dead.

Murder East - Murder West

1990

No artwork available
9.0

A half-dozen random people find themselves locked overnight in a floating discotheque and at the mercy of mysterious terror.

The Voice

1989

Borrowed Time poster
NR

Based on true events, the story of a sixteen-year-old during one of her life's most defining moments. Olivia has a complicated relationship with her mother, who suddenly calls her to go back home and while they are driving to their destination, they get into a car crash. A tale of loss and growth between three generations of women, this day will define Olivia for years to come.

Borrowed Time

2022

Wetherby poster
6.0

The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.

Wetherby

1985

Brimstone & Treacle poster
5.9

A mysterious stranger inserts himself into a troubled family's life, blurring the lines between good and evil as he cares for their disabled daughter.

Brimstone & Treacle

1982

One Fine Day poster
5.3

Alan Bennett's play about the mid-life crisis of an estate agent.

One Fine Day

1979

Swallows and Amazons poster
7.5

On holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed to sail over to the nearby island in their boat Swallow and set up camp for a few days. They soon realise this has been the territory of two other girls who sail the Amazon, and the scene is set for serious rivalry.

Swallows and Amazons

1974

No artwork available
5.5

Twenty year-old student Peter Fraiman falls asleep in 1975 a happy man, having asked his girlfriend to marry him. But when he wakes up, it's 1995; he has a wife he doesn't recognise and two children. Unable to remember anything of the intervening twenty years, he feels he has jumped forward in time. He goes in search of his former girlfriend and is forced to face the fact that he has become a person he never expected to be.

A Relative Stranger

1996

A Pattern of Roses poster
6.0

While his parents are renovating a cottage in an English village, teenager Tim and his friend Rebecca uncover information about the mysterious death of a 15-year-old boy who lived in the house decades prior, and as they dig deeper, Tim begins to find events from the past being mirrored in his own life.

A Pattern of Roses

1983

The Wildcats of St Trinian's poster
4.3

The girls of St Trinian's decide they are being asked to do too much work so they go on strike.

The Wildcats of St Trinian's

1980

Small Zones poster
9.0

Intertwined story of the lives of two women; an Englishwoman suffering abuse from her violent husband, and a Russian poet serving hard labour because of her subversive work.

Small Zones

1990

Duel of Hearts poster
7.0

Lady Caroline Faye meets Lord Vane Brecon and is attracted to him. When she finds out that he is being accused of a murder he did not commit, she sets out to prove him innocent

Duel of Hearts

1992

Tale of a Vampire poster
5.6

Condemned to life without end, and to an undying passion for a lost love he can never find, a vampire stalks a beautiful young woman.

Tale of a Vampire

1993

Johnny Bull poster
5.5

An English girl comes to America to join her American husband in a Pennsylvania coal town in the late 1950's. She faces the ire of her new mother-in-law, a former Hungarian with different ideas about the life and culture that her son should have.

Johnny Bull

1986

Ride the Snake poster
3.3

When Harper and her daughter take the law into their own hands, they believe they have the upper hand. But their plans take a dark turn when they kidnap the drunk driver that killed Harper's husband and he isn't what he seems.

Ride the Snake

2025

Benjamin's Struggle poster
7.0

In 1930s Germany, a young boy attempts to steal the original manuscript of Hitler's Mein Kampf in the hope that it will end the suffering of his family.

Benjamin's Struggle

2005

The House of Bernarda Alba poster
NR

A domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.

The House of Bernarda Alba

1991

The Bloody Chamber poster
NR

A beautiful teenage girl, marries an older, wealthy French Marquis, whom she does not love. He gifts her a choker made of rubies, warning her against taking it off.

The Bloody Chamber

1983