Erika S.L. "Kika" Markham (born 1940) is an English actress. Markham is a daughter of actor David Markham and writer Olive Dehn (1914–2007). She has three sisters: Petra, Sonia and Jehane Markham. Markham has had a long career in the cinema, television and theatre as an actress. Among her television appearances are roles in Edward & Mrs. Simpson, The Life and Times of David Lloyd George, A Very British Coup, Van der Valk, The Line of Beauty, Minder, Cracker, Agatha Christie's Poirot (The Double Clue), Sherlock Holmes' Wisteria Lodge and Mr Selfridge. Her films include Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965), Futtocks End (1970), François Truffaut's Two English Girls (1971), Operation Daybreak (1975), Noroît (1976), The Blood of Hussain (1980), High Tide (1980), Outland (1981, as Sean Connery's wife), The Innocent (1985), Wonderland (1999), Esther Kahn (2000), Killing Me Softly (2002) and Franklyn (2008). Markham married actor Corin Redgrave in Wandsworth, London, in 1985. The couple have two sons, Harvey (b. 1979) and Arden (b. 1983). Markham and Redgrave appeared together twice on screen: first in Lynda La Plante's Trial and Retribution (2000) as a judge and barrister, respectively; and later in the BBC's Waking The Dead (episode "Special Relationship: Part 1") as lovers suspected of the murder of a government advisor. They also appeared on stage together in an acclaimed revival of Noël Coward's A Song at Twilight, along with sister-in-law Vanessa Redgrave. Her sisters are the actress Petra Markham; the poet and dramatist Jehane Markham, widow of actor Roger Lloyd-Pack; and Sonia.[citation needed] In April 2020, she appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors as Grace Wilson. Markham's memoir of her husband, Our Time of Day: My Life with Corin Redgrave, was published in 2014.

Filmography

• 2023The Old Oak
• 2023Us & In Between — Agnes
• Life — Angela (uncredited)
• 2018High Strung Free Dance — Rose
• Fearless — Eleanor Banville
• 2015Break — Phoebe
• Mr Selfridge — Lois Selfridge
• 2012After Tomorrow — Woman
• Call the Midwife — Mother Jesu
• Secret State — Carol Molloy
• 2008Einstein and Eddington — Aunt Fanny
• 2008Franklyn — Naomi
• 2008The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall — Alison
• Party Animals
• 2006Longford — Governor Wing
• The Line of Beauty — Margaret Thatcher, Mrs. Thatcher
• 2005Dirty Filthy Love — Geraldine
• 2004The Fever — Jean
• Canterbury Tales — Leila King
• Born and Bred — Amanda Grimshaw
• 2002Killing Me Softly — Mrs. Blanchard
• Spooks — Maria Korachevsky
• The Forsyte Saga — Mme Lamotte
• Messiah — Emma Giardello
• Waking the Dead — Ann Hardingham
• 2000Esther Kahn — Trish
• 2000The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song — Sylvia Pankhurst
• 1999Coup — Carol Malloy
• 1999Wonderland — Eileen
• Midsomer Murders — Mary Morgan
• 1997The Woman In White — Madame Fosco
• The Woman In White — Madame Fosco
• Touching Evil — Elizabeth Walker
• Trial & Retribution — Mrs Justice Caroline Piggott
• Takin' Over the Asylum — Dr Hollis
• Cracker — Ann Appleby
• 1991A Woman at War — Regine Moszkiewiez
• The Chief — Billie Keenan
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Countess Vera Rossakoff
• 1989Arms and the Man — Catherine Petkoff
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes — Miss Burnet
• Black Silk — Julie Smythe
• 1985The Innocent — Mrs. Dobson
• Sherlock Holmes — Miss Burnet
• 1983Miss A and Miss M — Miss Aliott
• All for Love — Miss Alliott
• 1981Outland — Carol O'Niel
• 1981The Life and Times of David Lloyd George — Frances Stevenson
• 1980Blade on the Feather — Linda Cavendish
• 1980High Tide — Helen
• 1980The Blood of Hussain — Katherine
• Minder — Dolly
• Clouds of Glory — Sara Coleridge
• 1978Edward & Mrs. Simpson — Freda Dudley Ward
• Edward and Mrs Simpson — Freda Dudley Ward
• 1978News from Nowhere — Jane Morris
• 1977Cross Now — Barbara Henderson
• 1976Double Dare — Helen / Carol
• 1976Noroît (Une Vengeance) — Erika
• 1975Operation: Daybreak — Curda's Wife
• The Love School — Jane Morris
• Armchair Cinema — Marnie
• 1974Sea Song — Marnie
• Van der Valk — Sion Beekvelt
• 1971Two English Girls — Ann Brown
• Albert and Victoria
• 1970Futtocks End — The Niece
• Happy Ever After — Sarah Grant
• Hark at Barker
• Boy Meets Girl — Clara
• 1967Romeo and Juliet — Juliet
• 1967The Basement — Jane
• A Tale of Two Cities — Lucie Manette
• BBC Play of the Month — Juliet Capulet, Gloria Clandon
• 1965Bunny Lake Is Missing — Nurse
• Story Parade — Judy
• Theatre 625 — Jane, Frida / Young Matilda
• Jane Eyre — Helen Burns
• Sergeant Cork — Violet Berry
• Armchair Theatre — Val

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 1997Michael Redgrave: My Father — Self
• 1977Bukovsky — Self