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Kika Markham

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Known For

85 Years Old

Erika S.L. "Kika" Markham (born 1940) is an English actress. Markham is a daughter of actor David Markham and writer Olive Dehn (1914–2007). She has three sisters: Petra, Sonia and Jehane Markham. Markham has had a long career in the cinema, television and theatre as an actress. Among her television appearances are roles in Edward & Mrs. Simpson, The Life and Times of David Lloyd George, A Very British Coup, Van der Valk, The Line of Beauty, Minder, Cracker, Agatha Christie's Poirot (The Double Clue), Sherlock Holmes' Wisteria Lodge and Mr Selfridge. Her films include Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965), Futtocks End (1970), François Truffaut's Two English Girls (1971), Operation Daybreak (1975), Noroît (1976), The Blood of Hussain (1980), High Tide (1980), Outland (1981, as Sean Connery's wife), The Innocent (1985), Wonderland (1999), Esther Kahn (2000), Killing Me Softly (2002) and Franklyn (2008). Markham married actor Corin Redgrave in Wandsworth, London, in 1985. The couple have two sons, Harvey (b. 1979) and Arden (b. 1983). Markham and Redgrave appeared together twice on screen: first in Lynda La Plante's Trial and Retribution (2000) as a judge and barrister, respectively; and later in the BBC's Waking The Dead (episode "Special Relationship: Part 1") as lovers suspected of the murder of a government advisor. They also appeared on stage together in an acclaimed revival of Noël Coward's A Song at Twilight, along with sister-in-law Vanessa Redgrave. Her sisters are the actress Petra Markham; the poet and dramatist Jehane Markham, widow of actor Roger Lloyd-Pack; and Sonia.[citation needed] In April 2020, she appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors as Grace Wilson. Markham's memoir of her husband, Our Time of Day: My Life with Corin Redgrave, was published in 2014.

Born

Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, UK on 1st January 1940

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Midsomer Murders
Mary Morgan
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Agatha Christie's Poirot
Countess Vera Rossakoff
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BBC Play of the Month
Gloria Clandon
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BBC Play of the Month
Juliet Capulet
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Call the Midwife
Mother Jesu
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Waking the Dead
Ann Hardingham
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Minder
Dolly
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Sherlock Holmes
Miss Burnet
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Van der Valk
Sion Beekvelt
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Cracker
Ann Appleby
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Spooks
Maria Korachevsky
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Hark at Barker
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The Line of Beauty
Mrs. Thatcher
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The Line of Beauty
Margaret Thatcher
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Takin' Over the Asylum
Dr Hollis
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Life
Angela (uncredited)
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Life
Angela
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Edward and Mrs Simpson
Freda Dudley Ward
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Trial & Retribution
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Albert and Victoria
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Mr Selfridge
Lois Selfridge
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Born and Bred
Amanda Grimshaw
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Party Animals
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Fearless
Eleanor Banville
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The Chief
Billie Keenan
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Messiah
Emma Giardello
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Killing Me Softly
Mrs. Blanchard
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Secret State
Carol Molloy
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Story Parade
Judy
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Canterbury Tales
Leila King
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Outland
Carol O'Niel
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Einstein and Eddington
Aunt Fanny
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High Strung Free Dance
Rose
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The Old Oak
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The Love School
Jane Morriss
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Armchair Cinema
Marnie
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Operation: Daybreak
Curda's Wife
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Franklyn
Naomi
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High Tide
Helen
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Longford
Governor Wing
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The Woman In White
Madame Fosco
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Two English Girls
Ann Brown
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Wonderland
Eileen
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Clouds of Glory
Sara Coleridge
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Esther Kahn
Trish
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The Fever
Jean
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Dirty Filthy Love
Geraldine
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Noroît
Erika
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Sylvia Pankhurst
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Arms and the Man
Catherine Petkoff
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The Innocent
Mrs. Dobson
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Edward & Mrs. Simpson
Freda Dudley Ward
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The Blood of Hussain
Katherine
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Blade on the Feather
Linda Cavendish
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The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall
Alison
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Futtocks End
The Niece
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Miss A and Miss M
Miss Aliott
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A Woman at War
Regine Moszkiewiez
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Romeo and Juliet
Juliet
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The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Frances Stevenson
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Double Dare
Helen / Carol
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Michael Redgrave: My Father
Self
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Break
Phoebe
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Sea Song
Marnie
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After Tomorrow
Woman
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Us & In Between
Agnes
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Coup
Carol Malloy
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The Basement
Jane
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Cross Now
Barbara Henderson
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News from Nowhere
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Bukovsky
Self