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Suzanne Bertish | |
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![]() Bertish in "Back to School Mr. Bean" (1994) | |
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Occupation | Actress |
Suzanne Bertish [1] (born 7 August 1951) is an English actress.
Educated at Woldingham School, Bertish joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and appeared in many of its productions, including its marathon eight-and-a-half-hour version of Charles Dickens's The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby , in which she played three roles. [2] She repeated these three roles in the 1982 television version of the complete play. [3] She was later seen in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors (1983) as Adriana. [4]
In 1984, she appeared as Freida Gottleib, in two series of Shine on Harvey Moon , a refugee from Austria who owns a house with her brother Erich, when the Moons take up tenancy at their lodgings. [5] [6]
She also appeared as a female Arnold Rimmer (Arlene Rimmer), in an episode of Red Dwarf , "Parallel Universe" in 1988. [7]
She has also played small roles in several films, including the Harrison Ford vehicle Hanover Street , and the vampire film The Hunger . [8] She had a recurring role as Eleni in the cable television series Rome (2005–2007). [9] In 2009 she had a role in a production of Breakfast at Tiffany's at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. [10]