Susannah Doyle

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox person Susannah Doyle (born 5 July 1966)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> is an English actress, notable for her roles as Joy Merryweather in Drop The Dead Donkey (1991–1998), and as Avril Burke in Ballykissangel (2001).

Her other credits include Scandal (1989), The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1993), A Touch of Frost (1997), Midsomer Murders, Don't Go Breaking My Heart (1999), About a Boy (2002), episode "The Fisher King" (2004), The Revenge Files of Alistair Fury (2008), "Shut Up and Dance", from Black Mirror (2016), Josh (TV series) (2016), and The Last Vermeer (2020).

Early life

The daughter of the Irish actor Tony Doyle,<ref name="who" /> she realised that she wished to follow in his footsteps when, aged about five or six, she was taken to see him work, often in tiny theatres with audience and actors close together. She trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.<ref name="who">Template:Cite book</ref> She is the niece of Doctor Who actor Nicholas Courtney.

Career

Her big TV break came in 1991 with the role of Joy, the intelligent, acid-tongued secretary and foil to her corporate-speak boss, in the Channel 4 comedy Drop The Dead Donkey.<ref name="tomato"/> Other TV roles followed, including Minder in 1994, two episodes of Soldier, Soldier in 1996 and A Touch of Frost in 1997.<ref name="tv">Template:Cite web</ref>

When her father died in 2000, the producers of Ballykissangel asked whether she would join the cast. She had reservations over her ability to cope emotionally but took on the part of Avril Burke in 2001.<ref name="who"/><ref name="tomato"/> In 2001, she also appeared in an episode of Cold Feet and one of Pie in the Sky.<ref name="tv"/> In 2004, she guest starred as Vanessa Stone in Midsomer Murders, episode "The Fisher King" (2004).<ref name="tomato"/>

In 2008, she starred as Celia Fury in the CBBC television series The Revenge Files of Alistair Fury,<ref name="tomato"/> which won the BAFTA for Best Children's Drama Award.<ref name="bafta">Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2010 she appeared in "Your Sudden Death Question", S4:E3 of Lewis. In 2012 she appeared in an episode of police comedy Vexed. In October 2013, she appeared in Sarah Rutherford's Adult Supervision at Park Theatre (London).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2016, she appeared in "Shut Up and Dance", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror.<ref name="black">Template:Cite web</ref>

Director

Doyle started as a film director in 2005, writing and directing the short film New Religion.<ref name="vimeo">Template:Cite web</ref>

Filmography

• Scandal (1989) ... Jackie <ref name="tv"/>
• Drop The Dead Donkey (1991–1998) ... Joy Merryweather <ref name="tomato"/>
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1993) ... Maggie Lemass <ref name="tomato">Template:Cite web</ref>
• Don't Go Breaking My Heart (1999) ... Diane <ref name="tv"/>
• Ballykissangel (2001) ... Avril Burke <ref name="tomato"/>
• About a Boy (2002) ... Bitter Ex-Girlfriend <ref name="tv"/>
• Midsomer Murders - The Fisher King (2004) ... Vanessa Stone <ref name="tomato"/>
• The Revenge Files of Alistair Fury ... Celia Fury <ref name="tomato"/>
• A Congregation of Ghosts (2009) .... Barbara Baxter <ref name="tv"/>
• Black Mirror: "Shut Up and Dance" (2016) .... Blackmailed Woman <ref name="black"/>
• Josh (2016) <ref name="tomato"/>
• The Last Vermeer (2020)... Johana

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