Kika Markham

Acting

Kika Markham

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
Jan 01, 1940 (85 years old)

Kika Markham

Known For

The Old Oak
1h 53m
DOLBY
Movie 2023

The Old Oak

A pub landlord in a previously thriving mining community struggles...

Us & In Between
16min
DOLBY
Movie 2023

Us & In Between

Two long-lost lovers in their 80s, Agnes and Eddie, reignite...

High Strung Free Dance
1h 43m
DOLBY
Movie 2018

High Strung Free Dance

Zander Raines, a dazzling and tempestuous young choreographer, gives the...

Fearless
6 Episodes
DOLBY
TV Show 2017

Fearless

Emma Banville, a human rights lawyer known for defending lost...

Break
21min
DOLBY
Movie 2015

Break

Following an initial misunderstanding between an older couple and a...

Mr Selfridge
43 Episodes
DOLBY
TV Show 2013

Mr Selfridge

Mr. Selfridge recounts the real life story of the flamboyant...

Secret State
4 Episodes
DOLBY
TV Show 2012

Secret State

Secret State explores the relationship between a democratically elected government,...

After Tomorrow
16min
DOLBY
Movie 2012

After Tomorrow

Returning to the village of his estranged wife, James grows...

Franklyn
1h 38m
DOLBY
Movie 2008

Franklyn

Set between the parallel worlds of contemporary London and the...

The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall
1h 30m
DOLBY
Movie 2008

The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall

After Tom Hurndall is shot in the head in Gaza,...

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.