R.I.P. Susannah York

British actress Susannah York died on Friday (January 14, 2011) at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London at the age of 72 after suffering from bone marrow cancer. She was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar and won the Bafta for her role in 1969 film THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON’T THEY? York also appeared in A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, BATTLE OF BRITAIN, TOM JONES and played Superman’s Mom, Lara, in Ilya Salkind’s SUPERMAN THE MOVIE.

Her son, the actor Orlando Wells, said she was admitted to hospital on January 6, three days before her birthday, after suffering pain in her shoulder.

“She was obviously an incredibly brave woman, because she didn’t complain at all,” he said. He and sister Sasha are in “terrible shock”, but he said of his mother: “From Sasha and my point of view, she was absolutely the centre of our lives…she was a truly, truly wonderful mother.” In more recent years she was seen on television screens in BBC dramas Holby City and Casualty, as well as continuing her work on the stage.

York told Reuters in a 2001 interview that theater was her real love. “This is where I belong,” she said.

Source: BBC