Susan Harper (My Family)

Susan Beryl Harper (née Riggs) is a fictional character in the long-running British sitcom My Family. She is played by Zoë Wanamaker.

Susan is a tour guide and, according to her family, a bad cook. Susan is married to Ben Harper and has three children, Nick, Janey and Michael. Susan shows love to her children and husband. In the earlier series Michael calls her a control freak, and she still is. She enjoys cooking certain dishes, but uses the wrong ingredients. Ben and Susan have been married for about twenty-five years.

Over the years it was known that Susan was approaching her 40th Birthday, trying to give up smoking, thinking she was pregnant again and being fired from her job.

Susan finds it hard to deal with the fact of her children moving out. In the same series, she had to deal with Janey moving to Manchester to go to university, and Nick flying the nest to live in his own flat.

Susan doesn't have a good relationship her mother, Grace Riggs, but in the later series their relationship improved by the fact that Grace spent more time with her in the house while Ben was away.

Susan is the only character as of season 6 to appear in all 74 episodes.