Susie Blake is a big-name English actress who started her career in 1973 as a regular in Victoria Wood's TV programs. Blake would later get subsequently more important roles in all sorts of television series and films; most of them comedies or dramedies. She's also a voice actress for radio dramas, with some ventures in theatre.
Roles:
Live-Action TV- Rooms (1974), as Sarah
- Zodiac (1974), as Peggy
- Armchair Thriller A Dogs Ransom (1978), as Marion Dowell
- Cribb (1979), as Lotte
- Russ Abbot Madhouse (1981)
- Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV (1985)
- Something For The Weekend (1989)
- One Foot in the Grave (1990), as Victor Meldrew's boss
- Darling Buds Of May (1991), as Mrs. Jerebohm
- The Wail Of The Banshee (1992), as Faye Morgan
- Mud (1994–1995), as Miss Dudderidge
- Sootys Amazing Adventures (1997), as all the female characters but Katarina
- A Prince Among Men (1997), as Beverly
- Roger Roger (1999), as Eve
- The Quiet Garden (2002), as Mother
- Coronation Street (2003), as Bev Unwin
- Kelly And Lewis (2007), as Carol Taylour
- Wild at Heart (2008), as Judith
- Murder Most Foul (2008), as Elizabeth Bailey
- Mrs. Brown's Boys (2011), as Hilary Nicholson
- Parents (2012), as Alma Miller
- Great Night Out (2013), as Mrs. B
- You Me And Them (2013), as Emma Grey
- Cuckoo (2016), as Belinda
- Murder On The Blackpool Express (2017), as Marjorie
- CASUAL+Y (2019), as Belle Radnor
- The Real Marigold Hotel (2020), As Herself
- Not Going Out (2021), as Carol
- Kate And Koji (2022), as Joyce
Radio
- Star Terk Two (1985)
- The Phenomenon Squad (1987)
- Barrymore Plus Four (1995)
- Aunties Secret Box (1996)
Theatre
- Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (2018)
- The Mirror Crackd (2019)
- Murder In The Dark (2023)
Tropes associated with her works:
- Deadpan Snarker:
- Her continuity announcer in Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV is constantly quipping sarcastic burns without changing her expression, although given her perpetual Stepford Smile it shades into Cute But Psycho.
- Hillary Nicholson, her character in Mrs. Brown's Boys, always has to have a battle of wits with Agnes every time they meet. With Agnes winning of course.
- Screen-to-Stage Adaptation: A stage adaptation of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em began a UK tour at the Wyvern Theatre, Swindon in February 2018 starring Joe Pasquale as Frank Spencer, with Sarah Earnshaw as Betty and Susie Blake as Mrs. Fisher. Due to the success of the 2018 tour, the production began another tour in February 2020. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, many dates were cancelled.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Mrs. Inglis—played by Blake, quite a big-name cameo—is the HR manager who fires Victor Meldrew in the first episode of ''One Foot in the Grave'. Thereby setting up the rest of the series. She even gets the opening line of the entire series but her role is over within the first ten minutes.
- Take That, Audience!: A speciality of her continuity announcer in Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV, including such gems as "We'd like to apologise to viewers in the North. It must be awful for them."
