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2023 · as Mother Superior

Max

2002 · as Max's Mother

Nicholas and Alexandra

1971 · as Alexandra

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Dame Janet Suzman, (born 9 February 1939) is a South African-born British actress who enjoyed a successful early career in the Royal Shakespeare Company, later replaying many Shakespearean roles on TV. In her first film, Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), her performance as Empress Alexandra Feodorovna earned her several honours, including a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Suzman later starred in a wide range of classical and modern drama as well as directing many productions, both in Britain and South Africa. Suzman appeared in A Dry White Season (1989), a film that examined apartheid. Early life Janet Suzman was born in Johannesburg to a Jewish family, the daughter of Betty (née Sonnenberg) and Saul Suzman, a wealthy tobacco importer. Her grandfather, Max Sonnenberg, was a member of the South African parliament, and her aunt was the civil rights/anti-apartheid campaigner Helen Suzman. Suzman was educated at the independent school Kingsmead College, Johannesburg, and at the University of the Witwatersrand.

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Dame Janet Suzman, (born 9 February 1939) is a South African-born British actress who enjoyed a successful early career in the Royal Shakespeare Company, later replaying many Shakespearean roles on TV. In her first film, Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), her performance as Empress Alexandra Feodorovna earned her several honours, including a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Notable quotes

“The apartheid government was frightened of ridicule. Everyone is frightened of laughter.”
— Say no moor: Dame Janet Suzman on why South Africa’s apartheid-era censors wouldn’t dare touch Othello Sage Journals (5 April 2016)
“Theatre is a white invention, a European invention, and white people go to it. It's in their DNA. It starts with Shakespeare.”
— Dame Janet Suzman downplays 'white culture' theatre comments BBC (9 December 2014)
“You realise retrospectively mother nature has made you absolutely focused and cow-like. Then you realise your child is infinitely cleverer than you will ever be, and wittier and funnier, and you like being in its company and so you think, 'I haven't done a bad job, really.”
— The Saturday interview: Janet Suzman The Guardian (20 August 2011)