Susannah
York , ChartYork was born Susannah Yolande Fletcher in Chelsea, London in 1939, the daughter of merchant banker and businessman Simon William Peel Vickers Fletcher, and his wife, Joan Nita Mary (née Bowring), a diplomat’s daughter. After her parents’ divorce her mother married a Scottish businessman, and at the age of 11 York entered Marr College in Troon, Ayrshire. Later she became a boarder at St. Cuthmans, a school housed in Wispers, a Norman Shaw-designed country house in the Sussex village of Stedham. Still aged 13 she was removed – effectively expelled – from Wispers after owning up to a naked midnight swim in the school pool, and she transferred to East Haddon Hall in Northamptonshire.
Enthused by her experiences of acting at school, she first decided to apply to the Glasgow College of Dramatic Art; but after her mother had separated from her stepfather, and moved to London, she auditioned for, and was accepted by, RADA instead. There she won the Ronson award for most promising student[8] before graduating in 1958.
