Kika Markham

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

66

Gender

Female

Birthday

1940-01-01 (85 years old)

Place of Birth

Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, UK

Also Known As

  • Erika S.L. "Kika" Markham
  • Erika S.L. Markham

Kika Markham

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.

Known For

Outland
6.4%

Outland

May 22, 1981

Franklyn
6.0%

Franklyn

Oct 16, 2008

The Old Oak
7.2%

The Old Oak

Sep 29, 2023

Killing Me Softly
5.5%

Killing Me Softly

May 10, 2002

Midsomer Murders
7.5%

Midsomer Murders

Mar 23, 1997

High Strung Free Dance
7.3%

High Strung Free Dance

Sep 13, 2018

Sherlock Holmes
8.1%

Sherlock Holmes

Apr 24, 1984

Call the Midwife
7.5%

Call the Midwife

Jan 15, 2012

Two English Girls
6.9%

Two English Girls

Nov 18, 1971

Einstein and Eddington
6.8%

Einstein and Eddington

Nov 29, 2008

Spooks
7.6%

Spooks

May 13, 2002

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Acting

2023
The Old Oak
2023
Us & In Between as Agnes
2020
Life as Angela
2020
Life as Angela (uncredited)
2018
High Strung Free Dance as Rose
2017
Fearless as Eleanor Banville
2015
Break as Phoebe
2013
Mr Selfridge as Lois Selfridge
2012
Secret State as Carol Molloy
2012
Call the Midwife as Mother Jesu
2012
After Tomorrow as Woman
2008
Einstein and Eddington as Aunt Fanny
2008
Franklyn as Naomi
2008
The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall as Alison
2007
Party Animals
2006
Longford as Governor Wing
2006
The Line of Beauty as Margaret Thatcher
2006
The Line of Beauty as Mrs. Thatcher
2005
Dirty Filthy Love as Geraldine
2003
Canterbury Tales as Leila King
2002
Spooks as Maria Korachevsky
2002
Killing Me Softly as Mrs. Blanchard
2001
Waking the Dead as Ann Hardingham
2001
Messiah as Emma Giardello
2000
Esther Kahn as Trish
2000
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song as Sylvia Pankhurst
1999
Coup as Carol Malloy
1999
Wonderland as Eileen
1997
Trial & Retribution
1997
Michael Redgrave: My Father as Self
1997
Midsomer Murders as Mary Morgan
1997
The Woman In White as Madame Fosco
1994
Takin' Over the Asylum as Dr Hollis
1993
Cracker as Ann Appleby
1991
A Woman at War as Regine Moszkiewiez
1989
Arms and the Man as Catherine Petkoff
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot as Countess Vera Rossakoff
1985
The Innocent as Mrs. Dobson
1984
Sherlock Holmes as Miss Burnet
1983
Miss A and Miss M as Miss Aliott
1981
Outland as Carol O'Niel
1981
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George as Frances Stevenson
1980
Blade on the Feather as Linda Cavendish
1980
The Blood of Hussain as Katherine
1980
High Tide as Helen
1979
Minder as Dolly
1978
Edward and Mrs Simpson as Freda Dudley Ward
1978
Edward & Mrs. Simpson as Freda Dudley Ward
1978
Clouds of Glory as Sara Coleridge
1978
News from Nowhere as Jane Morris
1977
Cross Now as Barbara Henderson
1977
Bukovsky as Self
1976
Noroît as Erika
1976
Double Dare as Helen / Carol
1975
Operation: Daybreak as Curda's Wife
1975
The Love School as Jane Morriss
1974
Sea Song as Marnie
1974
Armchair Cinema as Marnie
1972
Van der Valk as Sion Beekvelt
1971
Two English Girls as Ann Brown
1970
Albert and Victoria
1970
Futtocks End as The Niece
1969
Hark at Barker
1967
Romeo and Juliet as Juliet
1967
The Basement as Jane
1965
BBC Play of the Month as Juliet
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