Susy Kane (born 27 August 1978, in Dorking, Surrey, England) is an English actress, comedy writer and musician.
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| Born | 27 August 1978 Dorking, Surrey, England |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, writer, musician |
Personal life edit
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.[citation needed]
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 London and Los Angeles.
Career edit
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, Maron, Extras Christmas Special, The Thick of It, The IT Crowd, Lodge 49, Endeavour, A Touch of Cloth, Death in Paradise, and Agatha Raisin. She was also a leading contributor to Funny Or Die UK as a writer, actress and director.[2] On radio she plays Pippa in the long running and award-winning comedy series Bleak Expectations on BBC Radio 4 and Andrée Melly in the BBC's award-winning recreation of the missing episodes of Hancock's Half Hour.[3]
In 2012 she joined the cast of "Nickelodeon"'s "House of Anubis" for its third season as Caroline Denby. In 2018 she played Cynthia in the feature film Stan and Ollie with Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly.
In 2018 she narrated the Channel 4 Documentary "The Million Pound Holiday Club".
In 2019 she joined the cast of cult US TV show Lodge 49 playing Lamar's (Paul Giamatti) French muse Genevieve. In season 2 episode 9 she sings a French mariachi version of "The Impossible Dream". Her acapella version of Eden Ahbez's "Nature Boy" was also used in season 1 episode 6, and appears on the Lodge 49 Soundtrack album, which was released in December 2019.[4]
Also in 2019 she starred in Comedy Central comedy pilot "Chasers" as Samantha Darling, opposite Rob Huebel, Matt Walsh, Gaten Matarazzo, and Cathy Shim.[5]
She has written sketches for topical BBC radio sketch show Recorded For Training Purposes, BBC Comedy Shuffle, ITV's Comedy Cuts, BBC Three's Rose D'Or winning CGI sketch show The Wrong Door and BAFTA award winning series Harry and Paul starring Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, also for the BBC. Her pilot script "Jurgatory" based on her time doing jury service sold to FX Channel in the US in 2014.
Television edit
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| Year | Title | Role | |
| 2022 | Agatha Raisin | Gilda Benson | Episode 4.3 |
| 2020 | Lodge 49 | Genevieve | Season 2 |
| 2019 | Chasers (pilot) | Samantha Darling | Comedy Central |
| Death in Paradise | Ricki Dacre | season 8, episode 4 | |
| 2018 | The Million Pound Holiday Club | Narrator | |
| 2016 | The Coroner | Claire Bryant | Episode 2.5 "The Captain's Pipe" |
| 2014 | Endeavour | Miss Victoria Danby | episode: Nocturne |
| Maron | Emily | episode: Marc on Talking Dead | |
| 2013 | Common Ground | Francesca | episode: William & Sinclair |
| House of Anubis | Caroline Denby | 40 episodes | |
| A Touch of Cloth | Jill Tits | episode: Undercover Cloth: Part One | |
| 2012 | A Young Doctor's Notebook | Beautiful Woman | season 1, episode 3 |
| The Revolting World of Stanley Brown | Terri | episode: Gut Instinct | |
| Bad Education | Mrs. Lythgoe | episode: Sex Education | |
| The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff | Duchess of Money | season 1, episode 1 | |
| Starlings | Jo | season 1, episode 6 | |
| 2011 | Navelgazing Presents... | Emily Wolsley/Sandra Evans/Waaf/Gap Year Student | 7 episodes |
| White Van Man | Lucy | episode: The Morning After | |
| Hattie | Young Actress | TV movie | |
| Mongrels | Willis Bund | episode; Marion and the Force-Field | |
| 2010 | Misfits | Presenter | season 2, episode 3 |
| The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret | Barbara | episode: What Can Only be Considered a Dreadful Day for Todd | |
| The IT Crowd | Female Bones | episode: Reynholm vs Reynholm | |
| 2009 | The Thick Of It | BBC Producer | season 3, episode 8 |
| Scoop | Mrs. Frobisher | episode Cat=Astrophe | |
| Things Talk | Coat / Toothbrush / Egg | voice | |
| 2008 | Parents of the Band | Diane | season 1, episode 1 |
| Gavin & Stacey | Reporter | season 2, episode 4 | |
| Comedy Cuts | Jennifer | 3 episodes | |
| 2007 | Extras | Amy | Christmas Special |
| Saxondale | Reporter | season 2, episode 5 | |
| Comedy Shuffle | Cinderella | episode: Brendon Burns | |
| 2001 | G Force | Samantha | episode: G4ce |
| 1999–2000 | Barmy Aunt Boomerang | Ms. Goodbody | 20 episodes |
Radio edit
- It Is Rocket Science
- Bleak Expectations
- Bullet at Balmains
- Recorded For Training Purposes
- The Missing Hancocks
Film edit
- Bill (2015)
- Resurrecting Bill
- Stan & Ollie (2018)
References edit
- ^ "The Byre Theatre | the Firebird". Archived from the original on 16 May 2007.
- ^ "Susy Kane". Archived from the original on 1 February 2009. Retrieved 19 February 2009.
- ^ Susy Kane's CV from her agent's website[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Lodge 49". Amazon UK.
- ^ Susy Kane on IMDB