Kika Markham
Erika S.L. "Kika" Markham (born 1940) is an English actress.
Markham is a daughter of actor David Markham and writer Olive Dehn (1914–2007). She has three sisters: Petra, Sonia and Jehane Markham.
Markham has had a long career in the cinema, television and theatre as an actress. Among her television appearances are roles in Edward & Mrs. Simpson, The Life and Times of David Lloyd George, A Very British Coup, Van der Valk, The Line of Beauty, Minder, Cracker, Agatha Christie's Poirot (The Double Clue), Sherlock Holmes' Wisteria Lodge 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), High Tide (1980), Outland (1981, as Sean Connery's wife), The Innocent (1985), Wonderland (1999), Esther Kahn (2000), Killing Me Softly (2002) and Franklyn (2008).
Markham married actor Corin Redgrave in Wandsworth, London, in 1985. The couple have two sons, Harvey (b. 1979) and Arden (b. 1983).
Markham and Redgrave appeared together twice on screen: first in Lynda La Plante's Trial and Retribution (2000) as a judge and barrister, respectively; and later in the BBC's Waking The Dead (episode "Special Relationship: Part 1") as lovers suspected of the murder of a government advisor. They also appeared on stage together in an acclaimed revival of Noël Coward's A Song at Twilight, along with sister-in-law Vanessa Redgrave. Her sisters are the actress Petra Markham; the poet and dramatist Jehane Markham, widow of actor Roger Lloyd-Pack; and Sonia.[citation needed] In April 2020, she appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors as Grace Wilson.
Markham's memoir of her husband, Our Time of Day: My Life with Corin Redgrave, was published in 2014.
Known for
Midsomer Murders
Mary Morgan
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Countess Vera Rossakoff
Call the Midwife
Mother Jesu
Spooks
Maria Korachevsky
Outland
Carol O'Niel
Sherlock Holmes
Miss Burnet
Minder
Dolly
Killing Me Softly
Mrs. Blanchard
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Sylvia Pankhurst
Waking the Dead
Ann Hardingham
BBC Play of the Month
Juliet Capulet
BBC Play of the Month
Gloria Clandon
Van der Valk
Sion Beekvelt
Trial & Retribution
Cracker
Ann Appleby
Mr Selfridge
Lois Selfridge
The Old Oak
Miss A and Miss M
Miss Aliott
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Frances Stevenson
A Woman at War
Regine Moszkiewiez
The Woman In White
Madame Fosco
Us & In Between
Agnes
Theatre 625
Jane
Theatre 625
Frida / Young Matilda
Franklyn
Naomi
Blade on the Feather
Linda Cavendish
Dirty Filthy Love
Geraldine
The Line of Beauty
Margaret Thatcher
The Line of Beauty
Mrs. Thatcher
The Chief
Billie Keenan
The Basement
Jane
Born and Bred
Amanda Grimshaw
Messiah
Emma Giardello
Futtocks End
The Niece
Michael Redgrave: My Father
Self
Fearless
Eleanor Banville
Arms and the Man
Catherine Petkoff
Two English Girls
Ann Brown
The Innocent
Mrs. Dobson
After Tomorrow
Woman
News from Nowhere
Jane Morris
Einstein and Eddington
Aunt Fanny
Longford
Governor Wing
Takin' Over the Asylum
Dr Hollis
Double Dare
Helen / Carol
Story Parade
Judy
Secret State
Carol Molloy
Break
Phoebe
Canterbury Tales
Leila King
Wonderland
Eileen
Party Animals
Life
Angela (uncredited)
Life
Angela
Edward and Mrs Simpson
Freda Dudley Ward
Noroît
Erika
High Strung Free Dance
Rose
The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall
Alison
The Love School
Jane Morris
The Fever
Jean
Armchair Cinema
Marnie
Romeo and Juliet
Juliet
Coup
Carol Malloy
Bukovsky
Self
Operation: Daybreak
Curda's Wife
Sea Song
Marnie
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
Freda Dudley Ward
Clouds of Glory
Sara Coleridge
Albert and Victoria
Hark at Barker
Esther Kahn
Trish
High Tide
Helen
The Blood of Hussain
Katherine
Cross Now
Barbara Henderson