Suzanne Bertish^[1] (born 7 August 1951, Hammersmith, London)^[1] is an English actress.

Educated at Woldingham School, Bertish joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and appeared in many of its productions, including its marathon eight-and-a-half-hour version of Charles Dickens's The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, in which she played three roles.^[2] She repeated these three roles in the 1982 television version of the complete play.^[3] She was later seen in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors (1983) as Adriana.^[4]

She has also played small roles in several films, including the Harrison Ford vehicle Hanover Street, and the vampire film The Hunger.^[5] She had a recurring role as Eleni in the cable television series Rome (2005–2007).^[6] In 2009 she had a role in a production of Breakfast at Tiffany's at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.^[7]

She also appeared as a female Arnold Rimmer (Arlene Rimmer), in an episode of Red Dwarf, "Parallel Universe" (1988).^[8]

Actress