
Kika Markham
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2023 · The Old Oak as
- 2023 · Us & In Between as Agnes
- 2020 · Life as Angela (uncredited)
- 2020 · Life as Angela
- 2018 · High Strung Free Dance as Rose
- 2017 · Fearless as Eleanor Banville
- 2015 · Break as Phoebe
- 2013 · Mr Selfridge as Lois Selfridge
- 2012 · Secret State as Carol Molloy
- 2012 · Call the Midwife as Mother Jesu
- 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 · Party Animals as
- 2006 · Longford as Governor Wing
- 2006 · The Line of Beauty as Margaret Thatcher
- 2006 · The Line of Beauty as Mrs. Thatcher
- 2005 · Dirty Filthy Love as Geraldine
- 2004 · The Fever as The woman in red
- 2003 · Canterbury Tales as Leila King
- 2002 · Spooks as Maria Korachevsky
- 2002 · Killing Me Softly as Mrs. Blanchard
- 2001 · Waking the Dead as Ann Hardingham
- 2001 · Messiah as Emma Giardello
- 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 · Trial & Retribution as
- 1997 · Michael Redgrave: My Father as Self
- 1997 · Midsomer Murders as Mary Morgan
- 1997 · The Woman In White as Madame Fosco
- 1994 · Takin' Over the Asylum as Dr Hollis
- 1993 · Cracker as Ann Appleby
- 1991 · A Woman at War as Regine Moszkiewiez
- 1989 · Arms and the Man as Catherine Petkoff
- 1989 · Agatha Christie's Poirot as Countess Vera Rossakoff
- 1985 · The Innocent as Mrs. Dobson
- 1984 · Sherlock Holmes as Miss Burnet
- 1983 · Miss A and Miss M as Miss Aliott
- 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 · Minder as Dolly
- 1978 · Edward and Mrs Simpson as Freda Dudley Ward
- 1978 · Edward & Mrs. Simpson as Freda Dudley Ward
- 1978 · Clouds of Glory as Sara Coleridge
- 1978 · News from Nowhere as Jane Morris
- 1977 · Cross Now as Barbara Henderson
- 1977 · Bukovsky as Self
- 1976 · Noroît as Erika
- 1976 · Double Dare as Helen / Carol
- 1975 · Operation: Daybreak as Curda's Wife
- 1975 · The Love School as Jane Morriss
- 1974 · Sea Song as Marnie
- 1974 · Armchair Cinema as Marnie
- 1972 · Van der Valk as Sion Beekvelt
- 1971 · Two English Girls as Ann Brown
- 1970 · Albert and Victoria as
- 1970 · Futtocks End as The Niece
- 1969 · Hark at Barker as
- 1967 · Romeo and Juliet as Juliet
- 1967 · The Basement as Jane
- 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Juliet