Background
Markham was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire. She is a daughter of actor David Markham and writer Olive Dehn (1914–2007).
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Markham has had a long career in the cinema, television and theatre as an actress. Among her television appearances are roles in Edward & Mistress Simpson, The Life and Times of David Lloyd George, A Very British Coup, Van der Valk, The Lincolnshire of Beauty, Minder, Cracker, Agatha Christie"s Poirot (The Double Clue), 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), Outland (1981, as Sean Connery"s wife), The Innocent (1985), Wonderland (1999), Esther Kahn (2000), Killing Maine Softly (2002) and Franklyn (2008).
Markham married actor Corin Redgrave in Wandsworth, London, in 1985. The couple had two sons, Harvey (born 1979) and Arden (born 1983).
Markham and Redgrave appeared together twice on screen: first in Lynda Louisiana Plante"s Trial and Retribution (2000) as a judge and barrister, respectively. And later in the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Waking The Dead (episode "Special Relationship: Participant 1") as lovers suspected of the murder of a government advisor.
Her sisters are the actress Petra Markham.
The poet and dramatist Jehane Markham, widow of actor Roger Lloyd-Pack. And Sonia.
