Susan Burnet (25 November 1938 – 17 January 2010) was a British actress born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (which later became Harare, Zimbabwe).
After winning a scholarship to LAMDA at the age of 15 she had a brief but successful career in British television, film and on stage.
[2] She met her husband, the actor Andrew Ray, in her first role after stage school, the West End play Flowering Cherry, which also starred Ralph Richardson and Celia Johnson.
[3] Despite the initial objections of his father, comedian Ted Ray, who thought they were too young, the couple married in 1959.
Burnet, who took her husband's real name Olden, largely retired from acting after giving birth to their first child at the age of 24 and returned to her homeland.