Kika Markham

Who is Kika Markham?

Erika S.L "Kika" Markham is an English actress.

Markham was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire. She is a daughter of actor David Markham and writer Olive Dehn. She has led a long career in the cinema, television and theatre as an actress. Among her television appearances are roles in Minder, The Life and Times of David Lloyd George, Van der Valk, Cracker, and Agatha Christie's Poirot.

Markham married actor Corin Redgrave in Wandsworth, London in 1985. The couple had two sons, Harvey and Arden. Markham and Redgrave appeared together twice on screen: first in Lynda La Plante's Trial and Retribution as a judge and barrister respectively; and later in the BBC's Waking The Dead 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, wife of actor Roger Lloyd-Pack, and Sonia.

She was directed by François Truffaut in Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent and has appeared in other films such as Outland and Killing Me Softly.