Susy Kane
Susy Kane (born 27 August 1978, Dorking, Surrey, England) is an English actress, comedy writer and musician.
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Occupation | Actress, writer, musician |
Personal life
She is the daughter of opera singer Alison Warner and actor and writer John Kane, and the younger sister of comedy writer and actor Simon Kane. Her father is a former associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company and is the creator and writer of British sitcom Terry and June. She is of French Huguenot and Celtic ancestry.
She grew up in Wandsworth, London and won a scholarship to Westminster School in the sixth form. She studied Chinese, Art and Film at the University of Edinburgh.[1] She lives in North London.
Career
A singer, jazz pianist and classically trained violinist she started singing in jazz clubs when she was 16. She has written event music for the London Eye and played gypsy fiddle for the Charlotte Church album Tissues and Issues.
Her TV credits include Saxondale, Gavin & Stacey, Extras Christmas Special, The Thick of It and The IT Crowd. She is also a leading contributor to Funny Or Die UK as a writer, actress and director [2] and plays Pippa in the long running comedy series Bleak Expectations on BBC Radio 4.[3]
She has written sketches for topical BBC radio sketch show Recorded For Training Purposes, BBC Comedy Shuffle, ITV's Comedy Cuts, BBC Three CGI sketch show The Wrong Door and BAFTA award winning series Harry and Paul starring Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, also for the BBC.
In 2012 she joined the cast of "Nickelodeon"'s "House of Anubis" for its third season as Caroline Denby.
Television
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Year | Title | Role | |
2019 | Death in Paradise | Ricki Dacre | season 8, episode 4 |
2016 | The Coroner | Claire Bryant | Episode 2.5 "The Captain's Pipe" |
2014 | Endeavour | Miss Victoria Danby | episode: Nocturne |
2014 | Maron | Emily | episode: Marc on Talking Dead |
2013 | Common Ground | Francesca | episode: William & Sinclair |
2013 | House of Anubis | Caroline Denby | 40 episodes |
2013 | A Touch of Cloth | Jill Tits | episode: Undercover Cloth: Part One |
2012 | A Young Doctor's Notebook | Beautiful Woman | season 1, episode 3 |
2012 | The Revolting World of Stanley Brown | Terri | episode: Gut Instinct |
2012 | Bad Education | Mrs. Lythgoe | episode: Sex Education |
2012 | The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff | Duchess of Money | season 1, episode 1 |
2012 | Starlings | Jo | season 1, episode 6 |
2011 | Navelgazing Presents... | Emily Wolsley/Sandra Evans/Waaf/Gap Year Student | 7 episodes |
2011 | White Van Man | Lucy | episode: The Morning After |
2011 | Hattie | Young Actress | TV Movie |
2011 | Mongrels | Willis Bund | episode; Marion and the Force-Field |
2010 | Misfits | Presenter | season 2, episode 3 |
2010 | The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret | Barbara | episode: What Can Only be Considered a Dreadful Day for Todd |
2010 | The IT Crowd | Female Bones | episode: Reynholm vs Reynholm |
2009 | The Thick Of It | BBC Producer | season 3, episode 8 |
2009 | Scoop | Mrs. Frobisher | episode Cat=Astrophe |
2009 | Things Talk | Coat / Toothbrush / Egg | voice |
2008 | Parents of the Band | Diane | season 1, episode 1 |
2008 | Gavin & Stacey | Reporter | season 2, episode 4 |
2008 | Comedy Cuts | Jennifer | 3 episodes |
2007 | Extras | Amy | Christmas Special |
2007 | Saxondale | Reporter | season 2, episode 5 |
2007 | Comedy Shuffle | Cinderella | episode: Brendon Burns |
2001 | G Force | Samantha | episode: G4ce |
1999-2000 | Barmy Aunt Boomerang | Ms. Goodbody | 20 episodes |
Radio
- It Is Rocket Science
- Bleak Expectations
- Bullet At Balmains
- Recorded For Training Purposes
- The Missing Hancocks
Film
- Bill (2015)
- Resurrecting Bill
- Stan & Ollie (2018)
References
- http://www.byretheatre.com/archive/detail.php?autoProd=121%5B%5D
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 1 February 2009. Retrieved 19 February 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- Susy Kane's CV from her agent's website