Performer file
Samantha Bond
Yes — Samantha Bond played Suzanna Chambers in Destroying Angel (Series 4, 2001).
In Midsomer Murders
Suzanna Chambers is part of the tangled group drawn together by the death of a hotel porter and the fate of an inheritance. Bond brings poised assurance to a story in which identities and intentions repeatedly shift.
Performer biography
Samantha Bond is a stage and screen actor known internationally as Miss Moneypenny in four James Bond films opposite Pierce Brosnan. Her television work includes Downton Abbey, Outnumbered and Home Fires, alongside an extensive theatre career.
Bond's career began on stage and has continued across classical theatre, television and film. The Moneypenny films brought her international recognition, but her television work has ranged from period drama to contemporary comedy. Her polished presence in Destroying Angel fits the episode's shifting social alliances and uncertain motives.
Career background ↗Samantha Bond’s Midsomer roles
Samantha Bond’s three credited Midsomer characters are Suzanna Chambers in Destroying Angel, Arabella Hammond in Shot at Dawn and Kate Cameron in Death in the Slow Lane. The later parts are distinct from Suzanna, whose story involves the death of a hotel porter and an inheritance. Use the character names beside the original titles to keep the appearances separate. They show a returning performer working within different guest communities rather than a single recurring woman moving between villages.
A role-by-role comparison can follow those cases in order or begin with the one you remember most clearly. The first two sit within Tom Barnaby’s lead period, while Death in the Slow Lane begins John Barnaby’s regular tenure. That gives the set an additional point of interest beyond recognition of the actor. The case descriptions below explain the premises without assigning unsupported motives to Bond’s characters. Her broader career, including the film and television work already described above, is kept separate from these fictional identities and their individual investigations.
The cases in context
Destroying Angel
Samantha Bond as Suzanna Chambers · Series 4, Episode 2 (2001).
A hotel inheritance, a missing manager and some lethally expert mushroom knowledge produce an unusually patient reckoning.
DCI Tom Barnaby investigates with DS Gavin Troy. Filming places for Destroying Angel →
Shot at Dawn
Samantha Bond as Arabella Hammond · Series 11, Episode 1 (2008).
A village feud dating from a First World War execution erupts when a retired colonel is abducted for a grotesque mock firing squad.
DCI Tom Barnaby investigates with DS Ben Jones. Filming places for Shot at Dawn →
Death in the Slow Lane
Samantha Bond as Kate Cameron · Series 14, Episode 1 (2011).
John Barnaby's first Causton case links a vintage-car rally with two deaths at an exclusive girls' school.
DCI John Barnaby investigates with DS Ben Jones. Filming places for Death in the Slow Lane →
Published episode credits
3 sourced episodes as Suzanna Chambers, Arabella Hammond, Kate Cameron.
Suzanna Chambers
Published cast evidence ↗Arabella Hammond
in Shot at Dawn
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