- Niece of the staunch South African anti-apartheid activist Helen Suzman.
- Her marriage to stage director Trevor Nunn was a prolific pairing personally and professionally for many years during the 70s. They later divorced. One son Joshua.
- Received the Evening Standard acting stage awards for "Hello, Goodbye" in 1973 and "The Three Sisters" in 1976.
- She was awarded the Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to drama.
- She was an active voice against the Extension of University Education Bill while a college student in South Africa. The bill was a means of introducing Apartheid into higher education, and when it was passed in 1959, Suzman decided to leave South Africa for England.
- Trained at LAMDA, she was made an honorary associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and has been awarded honorary degrees by the Universities of Warwick and Leicester, and by the Open University.
- Is one of 9 actresses who have received an Academy Award nomination for portraying a real-life queen. The others in chronological order are Norma Shearer for Marie Antoinette (1938), Katharine Hepburn for The Lion in Winter (1968), Geneviève Bujold for Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Vanessa Redgrave for Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), Helen Mirren for The Madness of King George (1994) and The Queen (2006), Judi Dench for Mrs. Brown (1997) and Shakespeare in Love (1998), Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth (1998) and Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), and Helena Bonham Carter for The King's Speech (2010).
- Surname pronounced "Soose-man".
- Hampstead, London, England (June 2011)
- Divorced Trevor Nunn April 1986.
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