Hannah Gordon
Mrs. Higgins

Hannah Gordon was born in Edinburgh and trained at Glasgow College of Music and Art where she won the James Bridie Gold medal and a contract at the Dundee Repertory Theatre. This was followed by spells at the Glasgow Citizen's Theater, Ipswich, Coventry and Windsor.

Her Television career began with the role of Ralph Richardson's daughter in Johnson over Jordan and she was soon playing leading roles in the BBC's highly successful classical serials of David Copperfield, Great Expectations and Middlemarch. Subsequent Television work included Abelard and Heloise, The Orkney Trilogy, The Exiles and Dear Octopus for Yorkshire Television.

About this time, she also played James Mason's daughter in the film of Spring And Port Wine. In 1975 she played Desdemona opposites Topol's Othello at Chichester and also at the Hong Kong festival. Since then, her West End appearances have included The Killing Game at the Apollo and The Jeweller's Shop at the Westminster Theatre; Can You Hear Me at The Back with Peter Barksworth at the Piccadilly, The Country Girl by Clifford Odets at the Apollo and Moss Hart's Light Up The Sky at the Old Vic.

Her film work also includes the highly acclaimed The Elephant Man with John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins and Limited Edition in Paris opposite Terrence Stamp.

She is perhaps best known on Television for My Wife Next Door with John Alderton, and Telford's Change, again with Peter Barkworth, but the long list also includes Lady Bellamy in Upstairs, Downstairs; Maggie in J. M. Barrie's What Day After the Fair, by Thomas Hardy, and Mrs. Durrell in My Family and Other Animals. This was immediately followed by the title role in Mary Stewart.

Hannah has also been seen in the Aspen Papers, with David Soul, An Ideal Husband at the Globe Theatre, Shirley Valentine at the Duke of York's Theatre and in Hidden Laughter by Simon Gray at the Vaudeville Theatre and on Television in Taggart; Joint Account with Peter Egan and Monarch of the Glen for the BBC.

Hannah has also received great acclaim for fronting 3 series on Watercolour Challenge for Channel 4.