An admirer of Cyd Charisse, after leaving school Danielle joined a dance group called The Younger Generation.
[4] Danielle's first screen role as an actress was as "Pretty Girl" in an episode of The Professionals ("Killer with a Long Arm"), broadcast in January 1978.
One reviewer commented "Many of the stalwarts are featured but, apart from Kenneth Williams, they are reduced to support for the eponymous heroine in the athletic and long-legged person of Suzanne Danielle".
In 1985, Danielle played the lead in a Christmas pantomime of Jack and the Beanstalk at Richmond, Surrey, supported by Jimmy Edwards, Kenneth Connor and Joan Sims.
[14] In 1986, she met golfer Sam Torrance, who proposed to her in 1987 on a Concorde flight on the way to play in the Ryder Cup in Columbus, Ohio, US.