One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.

Her grandfather Max Sonnenberg was a member of the South African parliament and Janet Suzman is a niece of civil rights/anti-apartheid campaigner Helen Suzman. Later years
Back in her native South Africa Janet Suzman has directed Othello which was also televised and Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan (renamed The Good Woman of Sharpeville) both at the Market Theatre Johannesburg. This was followed by A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972) opposite Alan Bates.