Susannah Doyle (born July 5, 1966) is an English actress, best known for her roles as Joy Merryweather in Drop The Dead Donkey and as Avril Burke in Ballykissangel. The daughter of the Irish actor Tony Doyle, she realised that she wished to follow in his footsteps when, aged about five or six, she ... was taken to see him work, often in tiny theatres with audience and actors close together. She trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Her big TV break came in 1991 with the role of Joy, the intelligent, acid-tongued secretary and foil to her corporate-speak boss, in the Channel 4 comedy Drop The Dead Donkey. Other TV roles followed, including Minder in 1994, two episodes of Soldier, Soldier in 1996 and A Touch of Frost in 1997. When her father died in 2000, the producers of Ballykissangel asked whether she would join the cast. She had reservations over her ability to cope emotionally but took on the part of Avril Burke. In 2001, she also appeared in an episode of Cold Feet and one of Pie in the Sky. In 2010 she appeared in "Your Sudden Death Question", S4:E3 of Lewis. In 2012 she appeared in an episode of police comedy Vexed. Since 2001, she has been pursuing parallel careers of scriptwriting and acting. In October 2013, she appeared in Sarah Rutherford's "Adult Supervision" at Park Theatre (London). In 2016, she appeared in "Shut Up and Dance", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror.
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| Organization | Category | Movie |
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Drop the Dead Donkey
as Joy Merryweather
Episodes: 55
First Aired: Aug 09, 1990
Ballykissangel
as Avril Burke
Episodes: 8
First Aired: Feb 11, 1996
Injustice
as Susannah James
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Jun 06, 2011
A Touch of Frost
as DS Liz Maud
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Dec 06, 1992
Soldier Soldier
as Flight Lt Louise Everett
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Jun 10, 1991
Midsomer Murders
as Vanessa Stone
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 23, 1997
WPC 56
as June Sawyer
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 18, 2013
Vexed
as Sue Goretti
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 15, 2010
Lewis
as Jean Croft
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 18, 2007
Death in Paradise
as Julie Matlock
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 25, 2011
Minder
as Susie
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 29, 1979
Black Mirror
as Blackmailed Woman
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 04, 2011
Pie in the Sky
as Flora McKee
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 13, 1994
Humans
as Claudia Nowak
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 14, 2015
As If
as Jay
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 22, 2001
The Revenge Files of Alistair Fury
Episodes: 13
First Aired: Jan 07, 2008
Ballykissangel
Episodes: 8
First Aired: Feb 11, 1996
Maigret
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Feb 09, 1992
The Bill
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 16, 1984
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