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Susan Hampshire, Lady Kulukundis, OBE (born 12 May 1937) is an English actress, best-known for her many television and film roles. Susan Hampshire was born in Kensington, London, the youngest of four children. She had two sisters and one brother. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a director of ICI who was rarely seen at home, her parents having unofficially separated. As a child, she had some developmental difficulties, unable to spell her name until she was nine and unable to read well until she was 12, but her mother was determined to give her the best start she could, and... MORE

Susan Hampshire, Lady Kulukundis, OBE (born 12 May 1937) is an English actress, best-known for her many television and film roles. Susan Hampshire was born in Kensington, London, the youngest of four children. She had two sisters and one brother. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a director of ICI who was rarely seen at home, her parents having unofficially separated. As a child, she had some developmental difficulties, unable to spell her name until she was nine and unable to read well until she was 12, but her mother was determined to give her the best start she could, and founded a small London school The Hampshire (now Gems Hampshire School) where Susan was taught. Her childhood ambition was to be a nurse, but she did not have the O level in Latin it required, so she decided to become an actress. She was not diagnosed as dyslexic until she was 30 years old. Hampshire's first film appearance was in the movie The Woman in the Hall. She decided to become an actress as a child and worked in a theatre before moving on to film and television work. She first became famous after playing the lead in a 1962 BBC adaptation of What Katy Did. Soon afterwards, she was taken up by LESS