Susan Danford

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Johannesburg, South Africa

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Susan Danford

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Susan Danford is a Johannesburg-born actor and voice artist celebrating a 30-year career, working both internationally and in South Africa in Film, Television and Theatre. She has been recognised with 9 nominations and 3 acting award wins, in leading and supporting roles, ranging from comedy to drama. Most recently Susan was directed by Sir Ridley Scott, (Blade Runner, Gladiator) on 2020’s acclaimed sci-fi series, Raised by Wolves (HBO Max) with the second season slated to start filming in early 2021. 2020 also saw Susan as Trish Williams in the celebrated series, Still Breathing (bbzeefilms/Mnet/Showmax). Feature film highlights include Invictus directed by Clint Eastwood; Friend Request; The Salvation, starring Madds Mikkleson, with series highlights including Tutankhamun (with Sam Neill), Known Gods, League of Glory, Meester, The Color of Friendship, Vagrant Queen, and Deutschland ‘89. Her notable theatre work began with her award-winning debut role as Rosasharn in Steinbeck’s, The Grapes of Wrath; Juliet in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Abigail in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. More recent theatre highlights include her Best Actress nominated performance as Anna, opposite John Kani (Black Panther) in his play Missing, for The Baxter and Market Theatres; playing Sylvia Gellburg, opposite Sir Antony Sher in Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass for The Fugard Theatre, for which she also received a Best Actress nomination, and Emma in Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, directed by Lara Foot, for which she won the Fleur Du Cap Best Actress Award.


Credits

Fynbos Fynbos (2012) Character: Anne
A real estate developer, on the brink of bankruptcy, travels with his wife to a lavish and remote glass house bordering an informal settlement on a sweeping landscape in the Western Cape of South Africa. He’s desperate to sell the property. When his wife goes inexplicably missing, stifled by a sense of looming distrust and financial pressure, he is caught in a maze of missteps and uncertainty.
Paradise Road Paradise Road (1988) Character: N/A
The love story between a German prisoner of war and a British Army nurse, in an English prison camp in Rhodesia, during World War II.
Fleisch Fleisch (2008) Character: Dr. Diane Jackson
Marisa and Frank honeymoon in South Africa. A particularly favourable offer lures them to a lonely and run-down hotel. There, they are attacked by men. Frank is beaten and kidnapped, while Marisa barely escapes. She receives help from the young South African Biko, who helps her to escape the men. Marisa and Biko find out that people are abducted to be cannibalized for the trade in organs. Finally, the two try to find frank and save him.
Land Of Thirst Land Of Thirst (2008) Character: Vivie du Preez
Pereceval Gibbon's classic novel Margaret Harding, Land of Thirst arrives on the big screen courtesy of director Meg Rickards. Khanyiso Phalo was the son of an African chief. As a young boy, Khanyiso was separated from his family by British soldiers and sent to study medicine in England. Years later, in 1913, Khanyiso returns to Africa at the height of racist Colonial rule. There, he meets and falls in love with an English woman named Margaret Harding. Their romance violently protested by scornful settlers and vicious soldiers alike, the couple resorts to hiding, lying, and cheating in order to keep their love alive and escape the people who would see them killed.
Doomsday Doomsday (2008) Character: Command Centre Official
The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.
Dazzle Dazzle (1999) Character: Duty Nurse
A fairy takes on human form and enters the life of a widowed children's book author and his daughter.
How to Make a Killing How to Make a Killing (2026) Character: Leslie Stahl
Disowned at birth by his obscenely wealthy family, blue-collar Becket Redfellow will stop at nothing to reclaim his inheritance, no matter how many relatives stand in his way.
Faith in the Flames: The Nichole Jolly Story Faith in the Flames: The Nichole Jolly Story (2025) Character: Heidi
Nichole Jolly is a nurse at the town’s hospital, who begins her day as usual, only to face an unimaginable crisis when a wildfire rapidly engulfs the town. Torn between her duty to protect her patients and her desperate need to find her husband Nick, (Colin Moss) and children, Nichole discovers an unyielding strength within herself to save not only her family but countless residents from the encroaching flames. The film is a tribute to the indomitable human spirit and the unsung heroes who emerge in the face of tragedy.
I Dreamed of Africa I Dreamed of Africa (2000) Character: Esther Maitland
Inspired by the true story of indomitable Kuki Gallmann, the film tells of a beautiful and inquisitive woman who had the courage to escape from her comfortable yet monotonous life in Italy to start anew in the African wilderness with her son, Emanuele, and her new husband, Paolo. Gallmann faces great danger there but eventually becomes a celebrated conservationist.
The Salvation The Salvation (2014) Character: Mrs. Whisler
In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow townspeople then betray him, forcing him to hunt down the outlaws alone.
Eraser: Reborn Eraser: Reborn (2022) Character: Vanessa Geist
U.S. Marshal Mason Pollard specializes in “erasing” people – faking the deaths of high-risk witnesses. With the technological advances of the last 25 years, the game has upgraded, and it’s just another day at the office when he’s assigned to Rina Kimura, a crime boss’ wife who’s decided to turn state’s evidence. As the two flee to Cape Town, South Africa, Pollard discovers he’s been set up and will need to be at the top of his game, or he’ll be the one who’s erased.
The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy (1999) Character: Leslie Covington
Laurel and Hardy are in Florida where they meet archeologist Henry Covington, whose daughter they try to protect from the wrath of a mummy.
Unfriend Unfriend (2016) Character: Caroline
Enjoying college life as a popular student, Laura shares everything with her more than 800 friends on Facebook. But one day, after accepting a friend request from a social outcast named Marina, Laura’s life is cursed...
Natalee Holloway Natalee Holloway (2009) Character: Maggie
On May 30, 2005, on a high school graduation trip to Aruba, she disappeared without a trace.
The Color of Friendship The Color of Friendship (2000) Character: Merle Bok
Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a nice home in Washington DC. When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums' house, she doesn't expect that her host family would be black. Nor do her hosts suspect that she is not a black South African.
Catch a Fire Catch a Fire (2006) Character: White Madam
The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an attempt to bomb the plant, with the injustice transforming the apolitical worker into a radicalised insurgent, who then carries out his own successful sabotage mission.
Invictus Invictus (2009) Character: Mrs. Cole
Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby union team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.



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