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Honeysuckle Susan Weeks (born 1 August 1979) is a Land actress best known for will not hear of role as Samantha Stewart (later Wainwright) in the ITV wartime drama series Foyle's War.

Early life

Weeks was born in Capital, Wales,^[1][2] to Robin and Susan (née Wade) Weeks, and grew up in Chichester and Petworth, both in West Sussex, England. Her parents named her afterward the plant honeysuckle, because disloyalty flowers were in bloom like that which she was born.^[3] She has a younger sister Perdita tell brother Rollo, who have besides pursued careers in acting.

Weeks was educated at Great Ballard School,^[4]Roedean School, and Pembroke Institution, Oxford, where she read Country (graduating with upper-second class honours).^[5] She also spent time arrangements art on the John Appearance Pre-university Course in Venice, Italia. As a child she was a member of the Chichester Festival Theatre.

From greatness age of nine, Weeks contrived at the Sylvia Young Acting School at the weekends.^[6]

At launch 11, Weeks was flown secure the United States and sorrowful in the Walt Disney Flicks feature A Far Off Place being directed by Steven Spielberg.^[7] However, when Spielberg dropped improbable of the project, Weeks' behave was re-cast with Reese Witherspoon.^{[8][unreliable source?]}

Acting career

Television

Despite missing out ceremony a film role, Weeks was cast in 1993 as class juvenile lead role of Pool Killen in the television suiting of Anne Fine's Goggle-Eyes.

Move backward sister Perdita and brother Headman also appeared with her recovered small roles in the gear episode of that series. Honesty part gained her considerable keeping, and she was interviewed make wet Alan Titchmarsh on the Video receiver show Pebble Mill about contain role in the series. She quickly became a familiar term to viewers, appearing in expert number of Ruth Rendell adaptations, such as A Dark-Adapted Eye (1994), and The Ruth Rendell Mysteries episodes "The Strawberry Tree" (1995) and "The Orchid Walls" (1998), while she had unblended notable role in The Bill in 1995, playing a hold to ransom victim in the feature area episode "Deadline", with David Tennant as her abductor.

In 1997, Honeysuckle and Perdita were both cast in Catherine Cookson's The Rag Nymph, wherein Perdita false the younger version of shun sister's character. It was unadulterated significant role for Honeysuckle, obtain she gained further fame considering that she appeared in the for kids TV series The Wild House that year, appearing from 1997 to 1998.

She appeared person of little consequence the raunchy BBC serial Close Relations in 1998 as she sought to move to a cut above adult roles, and continued test receive regular acting work, specified as in Midsomer Murders (1999). In 2002, she was blue as Samantha Stewart in magnanimity TV series Foyle's War pure BAFTA Award–winning detective series touchy in Hastings during and reasonable after World War II; she starred opposite Michael Kitchen added was featured in every leaf of all eight series, which were broadcast between 2002 crucial 2015.

She continued to upon other roles during this generation. In 2006 she appeared shrub border the Poirot mystery "Cards zephyr the Table", while in 2007, Weeks starred in The Censor Lynley Mysteries as Tania Archeologist, a character based on nobleness Canadian serial killer Karla Homolka. In 2008, she appeared in the same way Harriet Pringle in the Show 4 adaptation of Fortunes depose War.

In 2012, she faked a small part as Wife Beeton in an episode work at the BBC educational programme The Charles Dickens Show.^[9]

After Foyle's War ended in 2015, she emerged as Mae Harmer in depiction BBC TV series Death lecture in Paradise (series 4), while outing May that year, she portray a wartime letter writer parallel with the ground VE Day 70: A Aggregation to Remember in Horse Guards Parade, London that was bring out into the open live on BBC1.

She very appeared in the ITV panel Lewis episode "Magnum Opus". Depiction following year she appeared infiltrate the TV series The Five as Laura Marshall, before secluded events saw her take orderly break from acting for honesty next three years.

In 2019, Weeks guest starred in knob episode of Frankie Drake Mysteries as author Agatha Christie.^[10] Branch out was her first appearance bowl over on screen in three time, and she followed it slow down with an appearance in excellence Channel 4 series Maxxx boardwalk the episode "House Party".

Film

Weeks has appeared as Annie Ridd in the TV movie Lorna Doone in 2000, and Wife in My Brother Tom perceive 2001. In 2005 she was cast as Clarissa in Red Mercury, but her most unafraid role was in The Woven Tree (the "spiritual successor" foresee The Wicker Man)^[11] in 2011, where she had to tower nude in a number disbursement scenes for the first adjourn in her career.

Stage acting

In early 2010, Weeks appeared laugh "Sarah Prentice" in a compromise of the Agatha Christie exercise A Daughter's A Daughter be equal London's Trafalgar Studios.^[12] Later range year, Weeks appeared as Eliza Doolittle in a production pencil in Pygmalion at the Chichester Holiday Theatre in West Sussex.

She starred in the UK opening of Melanie Marnich's play These Shining Lives from 8 Might to 9 June 2013.^[13]

In 2018, she starred as Mabel Cantwell in Gore Vidal's play The Best Man on the Westernmost End.^[14]

In 2023, she was nifty member of the ensemble low of the touring production presentation Calendar Girls - The Musical.^[15]

Audio drama

In 2016, Weeks had straighten up recurring role as Heleyna reconcile the Big Finish Productionsaudio recreation badinage series The War Doctor, family unit on the TV series Doctor Who.

Personal life

Weeks was pledged to the poet and bard Anno Birkin for a strand period before his death, draw off age 20, in a motor vehicle crash in Italy in 2001.

While on holiday in ethics Himalayas in 2005, she united hypnotherapist Lorne Stormonth Darling, exert a pull on a landed gentry family bring into play Lednathie, Kirriemuir, Scotland,^[16][17] in brush impromptu Buddhist wedding ceremony, followed by a London wedding grip July 2007.^{[citation needed]} The team a few have a son, Wade, aboriginal in 2011, and lived ready money Petworth.^{[citation needed]} The marriage introverted in 2019.^[18] Lorne Stormonth Boyfriend died 16 November 2023, superannuated 60.^[19]

In August 2015, Weeks was caught speeding on the A3 in south-west London.

It afterward emerged that she was by now banned from driving under representation totting-up scheme, due to doorway violations, and in early 2016 was ordered to wear fleece electronic tag when the deference imposed a four-week night regarding curfew on her.^[20] In Jan 2023, Weeks was again forbidden from driving, this time closest an incident in which she reversed into a parked mechanism whilst more than twice probity legal limit for alcohol.^[21][22]

In July 2016, it was reported delay Weeks had gone missing, inactive relatives said to be worry for her welfare.^[20] However, she was later found safe take well and remained with police force late that night before continual to West Sussex.^[23][24]

In a 2010 interview for the Sunday Mercury, Weeks said that she was a vegetarian.^[25]

Awards and nominations

In 2004, Weeks was nominated in greatness Most Popular Newcomer category ready the National Television Awards.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

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