Kika Markham
38 movies · 43 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 1, 1940 (age 86)
- Place of birth
- Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, UK
- Also known as
- Erika S.L. "Kika" Markham · Erika S.L. Markham
Biography
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.
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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.
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Known for
Kika Markham: movies and TV shows
Acting (81)
- 2023
- 2023 Us & In Between
as Agnes
- 2020
- 2018 High Strung Free Dance
as Rose
- 2017
- 2015 Break
as Phoebe
- 2013
- 2012
- 2012
- 2012 After Tomorrow
as Woman
- 2008 Einstein and Eddington
as Aunt Fanny
- 2008 Franklyn
as Naomi
- 2008 The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall
as Alison
- 2007
- 2006 Longford
as Governor Wing
- 2006
- 2005 Dirty Filthy Love
as Geraldine
- 2004 The Fever
as Jean
- 2003
- 2002
- 2002 Killing Me Softly
as Mrs. Blanchard
- 2002
- 2002
- 2001
- 2001
- 2000 Esther Kahn
as Trish
- 2000 The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
as Sylvia Pankhurst
- 1999 Coup
as Carol Malloy
- 1999 Wonderland
as Eileen
- 1997 The Woman In White
as Madame Fosco
- 1997
- 1997
- 1997
- 1997
- 1994
- 1993
- 1991 A Woman at War
as Regine Moszkiewiez
- 1990
- 1989 Arms and the Man
as Catherine Petkoff
- 1989
- 1986
- 1985
- 1985
- 1985 The Innocent
as Mrs. Dobson
- 1984
- 1983 Miss A and Miss M
as Miss Aliott
- 1982
- 1981 Outland
as Carol O'Niel
- 1981 The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
as Frances Stevenson
- 1980 Blade on the Feather
as Linda Cavendish
- 1980 The Blood of Hussain
as Katherine
- 1980 High Tide
as Helen
- 1979
- 1978
- 1978 Edward & Mrs. Simpson
as Freda Dudley Ward
- 1978
- 1978 News from Nowhere
as Jane Morris
- 1977 Cross Now
as Barbara Henderson
- 1976 Noroît (Une Vengeance)
as Erika
- 1976 Double Dare
as Helen / Carol
- 1975 Operation: Daybreak
as Curda's Wife
- 1975
- 1974 Sea Song
as Marnie
- 1974
- 1972
- 1971 Two English Girls
as Ann Brown
- 1970
- 1970 Futtocks End
as The Niece
- 1969
- 1969
- 1967
- 1967 Romeo and Juliet
as Juliet
- 1967 The Basement
as Jane
- 1965
- 1965 Bunny Lake Is Missing
as Nurse
- 1965
- 1964
- 1964
- 1963
- 1963
- 1956
Talk shows and appearances (2)
- 1997
- 1977