- Born
- Birth nameSusan Melody George
- Height5′ 3″ (1.60 m)
- Her mother, Billie, was an ex chorus girl and her father was a musician who had a small part in the film Straw Dogs and she has a sister, Pam. At one time her parents owned The Court Hotel. Her first stage appearance was at 4 when she had to model a dressing gown at a hotel and fell on her face. At 6 she was doing commercials for Sugar Puffs, Fish Fingers, and Air lines. In 1961 she was at the Holy Trinity School, Cookham, Berkshire then Corona Stage School with Fraser Hines and Dennis Waterman. In 1962 when she was 11 she was at the Holy Trinity School, Cookham, Berks. then the Corona Stage School with Frazer Hines and Dennis Waterman. Later she was at London's Apollo in Shaftsbury Avenue in Country Girl with Patrick Mower. She s been in over 25 films and married Simon McCorkindale on Fiji.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tonyman 5
- SpouseSimon MacCorkindale(October 5, 1984 - October 14, 2010) (his death)
- ParentsBillie GeorgeNorman George
- She deliberately failed her 11-plus exam at school, causing her to be sent to a secondary modern school rather than a grammar school, so she would be allowed to pursue her childhood ambition of going to drama school.
- In 1995 she was chosen by "Empire" magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#72).
- Has played three characters who suffered or engaged in some of the most controversial depictions of sexual assault ever put on film. Most famously there was the controversial double rape scene in Straw Dogs (1971), where her character Amy was raped first by a former love and then by one of his coworkers, while in Mandingo (1975) she is the one who rapes a black slave, and in The House Where Evil Dwells (1982) her character engages in an adulterous affair while possessed by a ghost.
- Runs a production company, Amy International, which is named after the character she played in her most famous film, Straw Dogs (1971).
- Runs a stud farm of 20 Arab horses on Exmoor. She and late husband Simon MacCorkindale formed Georgian Arabians, now a world-recognized enterprise.
- [on her late husband's marriage to Fiona Fullerton] He'd had a brief marriage before and considered it a small part of his life because it was a mistake. He never wanted to talk about it and always considered I was his only wife.
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