Gordon, Hannah (1941–)
Gordon, Hannah (1941–)
Scottish actress. Born Hannah Cambell Grant Gordon, April 9, 1941, in Newhaven, Edinburgh, Scotland; dau. of William Munro Gordon and Hannah Grant; orphaned at 11, grew up with two uncles and a great aunt in Edinburgh; attended Glasgow College of Music and Art; m. Norman Warwick (cinematographer), 1970 (died 1994); children: Ben Warwick.
Began career at Dundee Rep (1962); made tv debut in "Johnson Over Jordan" (1965); was soon playing leads in BBC's classical serials of "David Copperfield," "Great Expectations" and "Middlemarch"; also appeared in "Abelard and Heloise," "The Orkney Trilogy," "The Exiles" and "Dear Octopus" for Yorkshire Television; appeared as Suzy Bassett on "My Wife Next Door" (1972–73) and as Lady Virginia Bellamy on "Upstairs, Downstairs" (1971–75); films include Spring and Port Wine (1970), Alfie Darling (1975), The Elephant Man (1980), and Miss Morrison's Ghosts (1981); played Desdemona opposite Topol's Othello at Chichester (1975); in West End, appeared in The Killing Game at Apollo, The Jeweller's Shop at Westminster (1982), Can You Hear Me at the Back at Piccadilly (1979), The Country Girl at Apollo (1983) and Moss Hart's Light Up The Sky at Old Vic; starred in Mary Stuart at Edinburgh Festival (1987) and was lauded for work in Shirley Valentine (1989); also narrated "Watercolour Challenge" for Channel 4 (1998).