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Susan Penhaligon
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Susan Penhaligon (born Manila, Philippines, July 3, 1949) is a British television actress who appeared in many television series and cult, horror and exploitation films of the 1970s, and is now known for playing Jean Hope in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. She is also a regular stage actress. Her birthplace was as a result of her father working as an engineer for the Shell oil company.
Her most notable television appearances have been Teenage Health Freak (1993), A Kind of Living (1983), A Kind of Loving (1982) and A Fine Romance (1981–1984) as the more glamorous sister of Judi Dench's character. She also appeared in the controversial Bouquet of Barbed Wire (1976), as Lucy in the 1977 BBC adaptation of Dracula starring Louis Jordan and as Bianca in a 1980 TV adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew.
Television guest starring roles include appearances in such series as Casualty, A Touch of Frost, Bergerac, Remington Steele, Tales of the Unexpected, Return of the Saint, Doctor Who (portraying Lakis in the story The Time Monster), and Upstairs, Downstairs. She returned to Doctor Who for the 2001 audio adventure Primeval.
She also appeared in several films of the 1970s. These included The Land That Time Forgot (1975); sex-comedy No Sex Please, We're British (1973); Under Milk Wood (1972); Australian-made horror film Patrick (1978); and Soldier of Orange (1979). She portrayed Juliane Köpcke in I Miracoli accadono ancora (1974), a film which graphically depicted Köpcke's ordeal in the jungle after surviving the crash of LANSA Flight 508.
Her son, Truan Munro, is an actor, and she is married to actor Duncan Preston.
As a student, Penhaligon shared a flat with soon-to-be rock star Peter Hammill. She is named in his songs "Refugees" and "Easy to Slip Away".
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