Kika Markham
Acting
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. 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.
Born: January 1, 1940
Place of Birth: Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, UK
Known For
Filmography
as Agnes
as Angela (uncredited)
as Angela
as Rose
as Eleanor Banville
as Phoebe
as Lois Selfridge
as Carol Molloy
as Mother Jesu
as Woman
as Aunt Fanny
as Naomi
as Alison
as Governor Wing
as Margaret Thatcher
as Mrs. Thatcher
as Geraldine
as Jean
as Leila King
as Maria Korachevsky
as Mrs. Blanchard
as Amanda Grimshaw
as Ann Hardingham
as Emma Giardello
as Trish
as Sylvia Pankhurst
as Carol Malloy
as Eileen
as Self
as Mary Morgan
as Madame Fosco
as Dr Hollis
as Ann Appleby
as Regine Moszkiewiez
as Billie Keenan
as Catherine Petkoff
as Countess Vera Rossakoff
as Mrs. Dobson
as Miss Burnet
as Miss Aliott
as Carol O'Niel
as Frances Stevenson
as Linda Cavendish
as Katherine
as Helen
as Dolly
as Freda Dudley Ward
as Freda Dudley Ward
as Sara Coleridge
as Barbara Henderson
as Self
as Erika
as Helen / Carol
as Curda's Wife
as Jane Morris
as Marnie
as Marnie
as Sion Beekvelt
as Ann Brown
as The Niece
as Juliet
as Jane
as Juliet Capulet
as Gloria Clandon
as Jane
as Frida / Young Matilda