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Susan Danford

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Susan Danford is a Johannesburg-born actor and voice artist celebrating a 30-year career, working both internationally and in South Africa in Film, Television and Theatre. She has been recognised with 9 nominations and 3 acting award wins, in leading and supporting roles, ranging from comedy to drama. Most recently Susan was directed by Sir Ridley Scott, (Blade Runner, Gladiator) on 2020’s acclaimed sci-fi series, Raised by Wolves (HBO Max) with the second season slated to start filming in early 2021. 2020 also saw Susan as Trish Williams in the celebrated series, Still Breathing (bbzeefilms/Mnet/Showmax). Feature film highlights include Invictus directed by Clint Eastwood; Friend Request; The Salvation, starring Madds Mikkleson, with series highlights including Tutankhamun (with Sam Neill), Known Gods, League of Glory, Meester, The Color of Friendship, Vagrant Queen, and Deutschland ‘89. Her notable theatre work began with her award-winning debut role as Rosasharn in Steinbeck’s, The Grapes of Wrath; Juliet in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Abigail in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. More recent theatre highlights include her Best Actress nominated performance as Anna, opposite John Kani (Black Panther) in his play Missing, for The Baxter and Market Theatres; playing Sylvia Gellburg, opposite Sir Antony Sher in Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass for The Fugard Theatre, for which she also received a Best Actress nomination, and Emma in Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, directed by Lara Foot, for which she won the Fleur Du Cap Best Actress Award.

Known for

Raised by Wolves

Raised by Wolves

After Earth is ravaged by a great religious war, an atheistic android architect sends two of his creations, Mother and Father, to start a peaceful, godless colony on the planet Kepler-22b. Their treacherous task is jeopardized by the arrival of the Mithraic, a deeply devout religious order of surviving humans.

Troy: Fall of a City

Troy: Fall of a City

Told from the perspective of the Trojan Family, the rich history of the Trojan War is explored, as well as the love, intrigue and betrayal of those who lived through it. On a trip to Sparta as a guest of Menelaus, Paris, son of Troy, falls in love with Menelaus' wife, Helen. After they depart Sparta together for Troy, Helen and Paris risk not only their lives, but those of their families and people as they trigger a chain of events that ultimately lead them all into an unending war.

Dominion

Dominion

Based on characters from the hit theatrical film ‘Legion’ (2010), ‘Dominion’ is an epic supernatural drama set in the year 25 A.E. In this transformed post–apocalyptic future an army of lower angels, assembled by the archangel Gabriel, has waged a war of possession against mankind. The archangel Michael, turning against his own kind, has chosen to side with humanity against Gabriel. Rising out of the ashes of the 25-year-long battle are newly fortified cities which protect the human survivors. In Vega (formerly Las Vegas), the largest of these cities, two houses vie for control and the stage is set for political upheaval and a dangerous power shift. Meanwhile, a rebellious young soldier begins a perilous journey as the war between the human race and the fallen angels hellbent on their domination escalates.

How to Make a Killing

How to Make a Killing

Disowned at birth by his obscenely wealthy family, blue-collar Becket Redfellow will stop at nothing to reclaim his inheritance, no matter how many relatives stand in his way.

Around the World in 80 Days

Around the World in 80 Days

Following an outrageous bet, Fogg and his valet, Passepartout, take on the legendary journey of circumnavigating the globe in just 80 days, swiftly joined by aspiring journalist Abigail Fix, who seizes the chance to report on this extraordinary story.

Doomsday

Doomsday

The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.

The Triangle

The Triangle

A shipping magnate hires four experts from various fields to investigate what happened to his ships that went missing in the Bermuda Triangle. The team discovers a threat that might unravel time itself and cause the world to end.

Invictus

Invictus

Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby union team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.

Friend Request

Friend Request

Enjoying college life as a popular student, Laura shares everything with her more than 800 friends on Facebook. But one day, after accepting a friend request from a social outcast named Marina, Laura’s life is cursed...

The Salvation

The Salvation

In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow townspeople then betray him, forcing him to hunt down the outlaws alone.

Known Gods

Known Gods

Deep in a lush valley are four wine farms and four wine families. Four families surrounded by mystery, love... and murder. Four wine farms - Rossow, Le Fortune des Vins, Smoorberg and Mount Jolley - exist in a crease in time in their valley, almost completely untouched by the outside world. Until the winemaker on Rossow, Deetlef Koen, is murdered.

Onder Draai Die Duiwel Rond

Onder Draai Die Duiwel Rond

Onder Draai die Duiwel Rond is a South African television drama series created and written by Chris Barnard and produced by Sonneblom Films about beautiful people, good wine and respectable neighbours living on the banks of the Hartebeespoort Dam with lives that are seemingly idyllically peaceful and romantic, but which harbour deep secrets just beneath the surface of the facade.

The Color of Friendship

The Color of Friendship

Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a nice home in Washington DC. When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums' house, she doesn't expect that her host family would be black. Nor do her hosts suspect that she is not a black South African.

Eraser: Reborn

Eraser: Reborn

U.S. Marshal Mason Pollard specializes in “erasing” people – faking the deaths of high-risk witnesses. With the technological advances of the last 25 years, the game has upgraded, and it’s just another day at the office when he’s assigned to Rina Kimura, a crime boss’ wife who’s decided to turn state’s evidence. As the two flee to Cape Town, South Africa, Pollard discovers he’s been set up and will need to be at the top of his game, or he’ll be the one who’s erased.

Still Breathing

Still Breathing

A deeply moving drama series about a group of old friends who have drifted apart as they have grown older. They are brought together when tragedy strikes.