Suzanna Hamilton

Suzanna Hamilton (born February 8, 1960) is an English actress, notable for playing the role of Julia in the 1984 film adaptation of George Orwell's classic novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, as well as other film roles including Tess (1979), Brimstone and Treacle (1982), Wetherby (1985), and Out of Africa (1985). She has had numerous television roles such as the ITV drama Wish Me Luck (1988), the BBC medical drama Casualty (1993–94), and the STV drama McCallum (1995–97). Early career Hamilton was born in London on 8 February 1960. In 1973, Hamilton received acting training at the Anna Scher Theatre School in Islington. She was a student at the Central School of Speech and Drama in Swiss Cottage, Camden. She became a protégée of filmmaker Claude Whatham, who discovered her in a children's experimental theatre in North London in the early 1970s. In 1974, she appeared in her first feature film, the Whatham-directed Swallows and Amazons. Billed as Zanna Hamilton, she was cast as Susan Walker, one of four young siblings collectively known as "the Swallows", who go on a camping and sailing holiday in the Lake District during the summer of 1929. Whatham later directed Hamilton as Princess Alice in the BBC miniseries, Disraeli (1978).