Susan Joan Holderness (born 28 May 1949) is an English actress on both stage and screen having had appearances in Bless This House (1974), The New Avengers (1977), Canned Laughter (1979), The Sandbaggers (1980), The Cleopatras and It Takes a Worried Man (1983), The Brief and Minder (1984), Doctors (2004-2014), Still Open All Hours (2018–2019) EastEnders and The Madame Blanc Mysteries (2021).

[1][2] She began her acting career with the Manchester 69 Theatre Company in A Midsummer Night's Dream,[3] Peer Gynt and as Desdemona in Catch My Soul (Jack Good's rock-musical version of Othello).

[4] Television roles include Marianne in The Sandbaggers (two series), Bless This House, as Pamela Huntley-Johnson in the episode The Bells Are Ringing (1974), as Liz in It Takes a Worried Man (two series), Jo in The Brief, Cleopatra IV in The Cleopatras;[5] as Laura Doolan, a wife of serial bigamist "Confident" Clive Cosgrove in the Minder episode "A Number of Old Wives Tales" (1984); episodes of The New Avengers,[2] Thriller, Sob Sisters, Growing Pains, Doctors,[4] Lime Street with Robert Wagner, and Murder in Suburbia.

[6] She played Rowan Atkinson's love interest, Lorraine, in Canned Laughter, and did numerous impersonations in two series of End of Part One.

[1] Her children are Harriet, a yoga instructor, and Freddie, head of history at a school in West Sussex.