Susannah Wise
Susannah Walker Wise is an English television and stage actress.
She trained as an actress at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, graduating in 1995. Wise is best known for her work in the soap opera EastEnders and the Channel 4 comedy Peep Show. On stage, she has had roles in Christopher Shinn's Where Do We Live and in Nina Raine's Rabbit. She also played Rebecca Shaw in the Channel 4 series Derek. She appeared in the final episode of Kavanagh QC, starring John Thaw, in 2001. In 2015 she portrayed Sylvie in the Mystery miniseries The Enfield Haunting. In 2020 she appeared as Emily Helmsley in Father Brown episode 8.10 "The Tower of Lost Souls".
Her debut novel This Fragile Earth was released in 2021, her second novel Okay Then That’s Great in 2022. Both books have been longlisted for the Mslexia prize
Acting
TV
The IT Crowd
as Samantha
2006
TV
Peep Show
as Heather
2003
TV
Midsomer Murders
as Liz Francis
1997
TV
Call the Midwife
as Hilary
2012
TV
Derek
as Rebecca
2013
Movie
An Ideal Husband
as Young Mother
1999
Movie
Take Down
as Agent Jess Chambliss
2016
TV
Father Brown
as Emily Helmsley
2013
TV
Trying
as Denise
2020
TV
Chewing Gum
as Louise
2015
TV
Toast of London
2013
Movie
Britannic
as Nurse
2000
TV
Roadkill
as Jessie Coomer
2020
TV
X Company
as Adele
2015
TV
Babylon
as Jennifer Miller
2014
TV
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
as Milicent Hargrave
1996
TV
Press
as Wendy Bolt
2018
TV
Dalziel and Pascoe
as Louisa Fielding
1996
TV
PhoneShop
as Shelley
2010
TV
Art Detectives
as Marie Claes
2025
TV
Jo
2013
TV
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as Shop Assistant
1987
Movie
Soundproof
as Anna
2006
TV
Vital Signs
as Rebecca
2006