Miriam Margolyes, much in demand as a voice actor, recognised a fellow talent and with typical generosity recommended Sue to her agent. At this time she came to the attention of BBC Radio and her skill at creating children’s voices led to favourable reviews.
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Her early acting experience was in repertory, first in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, in 1969, and then in Ayr and Worthing.ĭuring the 1970s Sue met and married Michael Sheridan the marriage ended, but she retained the professional surname. Educated at the Brigidine convent school in Windsor and Ashford grammar school in Middlesex, Sue trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, where she won the Malvern prize for comedy and honed a talent for mimicry that she had shown from her early years. In 1992, when the BBC unveiled a television version of Enid Blyton’s Noddy in Toyland books, Sue played the title character with her usual attention to detail, becoming Noddy’s voice for a generation of children.īorn in Surbiton, Surrey, Sue was the daughter of a Londoner, Donald Thomas, a Bank of England official, and his wife, Margaret (nee Spence), who was a ceramic artist from Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Although she was well known for Hitchhiker’s, she also reached huge audiences, from the late 80s onwards, as one of the UK’s most popular animation voices in television series such as Jimbo and the Jet-Set and Moomin. Sue’s timing was superb, whether working ensemble in a radio studio, alone in an animation voiceover booth, or on stage.
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When we toured Hitchhiker’s as a live show in 2012-13, she presented familiar Adams one-liners with such aplomb that a theatre full of fans would laugh as if hearing them for the first time. She was still refining that delivery three decades later. Douglas freely admitted that the character of Trillian was not especially well written, but Sue’s interpretation gave the girlfriend of Zaphod Beeblebrox an intelligence and likeability that removed any suggestion of her being a token space bimbo. She was not content with resting on her laurels. Having listened back to her 1978 performance as the unemployed astrophysicist Trillian, the actor Susan Sheridan emailed me in advance to say: “Whoops, can I play her differently, please?”Ī quest for perfection was one of the rewards of directing Sue, who has died aged 68 of cancer. In 2008 the original radio cast of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, along with myself as director, were due to give a 30th-anniversary script reading at the annual Douglas Adams memorial lecture.
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