Susan Lyons

Susan Lyons is an Australian actress.

Career Film and television Lyons' television appearances include: A Country Practice, Police Rescue, Murder Call, Farscape, Something in the Air and All Saints.

Her film appearances include: The Good Wife, No Worries, In a Savage Land, Black and White, Corroboree, Martin Four and Napoleon.

Lyons starred in the 1998 Australian Christmas film Crackers, playing single mother Hilary who hates Christmas.

Theatre Lyons has also appeared extensively in stage productions for many of the major theatre companies in Australia, including Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, State Theatre Company of South Australia and Bell Shakespeare. She has appeared in such titles as Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Comedy of Errors, The Vagina Monologues, The Beggar’s Opera, As You Like It, Pygmalion, Measure for Measure and Two Weeks with the Queen.

Her most recent credits includes work as an associate director on the 2003 Broadway production of I Am My Own Wife directed by Moisés Kaufman which was also staged in Melbourne in 2006. She also adapted a version of A Christmas Carol, which has been staged on Broadway and throughout the US from 2018 onward.

She has also narrated the audio book version of Incendiary, by Chris Cleave.

Personal life Lyons is married to Tony Award-winning theatre and film actor Jefferson Mays. They first met in 2002 when Lyons saw Mays perform in a production of Outward Bound at the Westport Country Playhouse, in Connecticut.

Awards Year With Award Category Result 1993 Susan Lyons Marten Bequest Scholarship Acting

Filmography

Film YearTitleRoleType 1983 The Winds of Jarrah Diana Venness Feature film 1987 The Umbrella Woman (aka The Good Wife) Mrs. Fielding Feature film 1987 The Riddle of the Stinson Jean Batten TV film 1989 The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro Ruth TV film 1990 Wendy Cracked a Walnut (aka ...Almost) Caroline Feature film 1992 Six Pack: Loveless Annie TV film series, 1 episode 1993 No Worries Ellen Bell Feature film 1994 Ebbtide Alison Feature film 1994 The Roly Poly Man Sandra Burnett Feature film 1995 Napoleon Penny, Napoleon's Mum / Other Wallaby (voice) Feature film 1996 The Territorians Anne McCabe TV film 1998 Halifax f.p.: Afraid of the Dark Detective Helen de Castro TV film series, 1 episode 1998 Crackers Hilary Dredge Feature film 1999 In a Savage Land Helen Stevens Feature film 2001 Martin Four Grace Film short 2002 Black and White Dr. Thompson (uncredited) Feature film 2005 Life Jean Gregory TV film 2007 Corroboree Verna Feature film

Television YearTitleRoleType 1982 For the Term of His Natural Life Sarah TV miniseries, 3 episodes 1983; 1989; 1990 A Country Practice Sister Sandy Wright / Elizabeth Brown / Linda Freeman TV series, 10 episodes 1984 Five Mile Creek Miss Parling TV series, season 2, episode 10: "Matchmaker" 1987 Willing and Abel TV series, 1 episode 1988 Stringer Laura Chandler TV series, 8 episodes 1990 Rafferty's Rules TV series, 1 episode 1990 Come in Spinner Dallas McIntyre TV miniseries, 2 episodes 1991; 1993 Eggshells Jill Knight TV series, 13 episodes 1991 G.P. TV series, 1 episode 1992 E Street Nancy Plimshaw TV series, 2 episodes 1992 Six Pack Annie TV series, season 1, episode 2: "Loveless" 1995 Police Rescue Janet TV series, season 4, episode 6: "Double Jeopardy" 1996 Mercury Nell Roberts TV miniseries, 13 episodes 1996 Sun on the Stubble Ellie Gunther TV miniseries, 6 episodes 1997 Fallen Angels TV series, 1 episode 1998 Murder Call Amanda MacKenzie TV series, season 2, episode 16: "A View to a Kill" 1998 Three Forever Martha Graves TV miniseries 1999 Dog's Head Bay Vicki Santorini TV series, 13 episodes 2001 Farscape Sierjna TV series, season 3, episode 12: "Meltdown" 2001 All Saints Natalie Moyes TV series, season 4, episode 39: "Child's Play" 2002 Something in the Air Sue Smithies TV series, 5 episodes 2010 American Experience Elizabeth Merry TV series, season 22, episode 4: "Dolley Madison"

Theatre

As actor Year Title Role Venue / Co. 1979; 1980 The Three Sisters Natalia Jane Street Theatre, Sydney with NIDA, Playhouse, Adelaide with STCSA 1979 The Beggar’s Opera NIDA Theatre, Sydney, Playhouse, Canberra 1979 The Ballad of the Sad Café NIDA Theatre, Sydney 1980 The Mystery Plays of Wakefield Playhouse, Adelaide with STCSA 1980 The Float Tina Playhouse, Adelaide with STCSA 1980 On the Wallaby Premier Butler / Miss Collins / Happy Valley / Woman Playhouse, Adelaide with STCSA 1980 Pericles, Prince of Tyre Theatre 62, Adelaide with STCSA 1980 Traitors Theatre 62, Adelaide with STCSA 1980 A Month in the Country Vera Playhouse, Adelaide with STCSA 1980 Red Light Square Theatre 62, Adelaide with STCSA 1981 Buckley's! Di Playhouse, Adelaide with STCSA 1981 Pygmalion Clara Eynsford-Hill Playhouse, Adelaide with STCSA 1981 As You Like It Rosalind / Audrey Theatre 62, Adelaide with STCSA 1982 Macbeth Sydney Opera House with STC 1983 The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. Anna Sydney Opera House with STC 1985 The Real Thing Charlotte SGIO Theatre, Brisbane with Queensland Theatre 1986 Measure for Measure Wharf Theatre, Sydney with STC 1986, 1987 Aren’t We All? Margot His Majesty's Theatre, Perth, Comedy Theatre, Melbourne, Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney 1988 The Game of Love and Chance Wharf Theatre, Sydney with STC 1988 An Ideal Husband Wharf Theatre, Sydney with STC 1989 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Titania Sydney Opera House with STC 1991 The Merchant of Venice Portia Sydney Showground with Bell Shakespeare, Melbourne Athenaeum 1991 Hamlet Voltemand / 2nd Player Melbourne Athenaeum 1991 South American Barbecue Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney with North Coast Theatre Company 1995 Paradise Lost St George's Cathedral, Perth 1995 Two Weeks with the Queen Alexander Theatre, Johannesburg, South African State Theatre, Wharf Theatre, Sydney with STC 1996 The Queen and I Princess Diana Comedy Theatre, Melbourne, Monash University, Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide, Gold Coast Arts Centre, Newcastle Civic Theatre with Out of Joint Theatre Company 1997 The Comedy of Errors Adriana Sydney Opera House with STC for Sydney Festival 1996 Big Hair in America The Butter Factory Theatre, Wodonga with HotHouse Theatre 2001 The Vagina Monologues Ensemble Theatre, Sydney 2002 Night Letters Australian National University, Canberra with Australian National Playwrights Conference 2002 The Eye of the Needle Civic Square Canberra with Elbow Theatre 2003 All My Sleep and Waking Australian National University, Canberra with Australian National Playwrights Conference

As director Year Title Role Venue / Co. 2003–2004; 2006 I Am My Own Wife Artistic Consultant / Associate Director Lyceum Theatre, Broadway, Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne with MTC 2018–2024 A Christmas Carol Adaptor Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles, South Coast Repertory Theatre, Park Theatre, New Hampshire, Nederlander Theatre, Broadway, Old Globe Theatre, San Diego