Kika Markham
Acting
Born 1940-01-01
Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, UK
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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.
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Acting
56 credits
Midsomer Murders
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Call the Midwife
Minder
Sherlock Holmes
Spooks
BBC Play of the Month
Waking the Dead
Theatre 625
Van der Valk
Trial & Retribution
Cracker
Mr Selfridge
The Chief
Story Parade
The Forsyte Saga
Born and Bred
Sergeant Cork
Killing Me Softly
Touching Evil
Messiah
Fearless
Outland
Canterbury Tales
Life
The Line of Beauty
Secret State
Edward and Mrs Simpson
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Takin' Over the Asylum
The Love School
All for Love
Einstein and Eddington
High Strung Free Dance
Operation: Daybreak
Armchair Cinema
Franklyn
Bunny Lake Is Missing
The Woman In White
Two English Girls
Wonderland
Jane Eyre
Longford
Noroît (Une Vengeance)
Clouds of Glory
Black Silk
Armchair Theatre
The Fever
Esther Kahn
The Innocent
Dirty Filthy Love
The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
A Tale of Two Cities
The Woman In White
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
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