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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 7, 1948
Place of Birth
Frankfurt, Germany
Also Known As
- Susie Blakely
Susan Blakely
1.2 Popularity
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Susan Blakely is an American film actress and actress, who has mainly played supporting roles. She is best known for her leading role in the 1976 miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, for which she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama. Blakely also has appeared in films including The Towering Inferno, Report to the Commissioner, Capone, The Concorde ... Airport '79, and Over the Top. Blakely arrived in Hollywood in the early 1970s, and began appearing in supporting roles in films including Savages, The Way We Were, and The Lords of Flatbush. Her first major role was as Patty Simmons in the 1974 disaster film The Towering Inferno. The following year, she played the female lead roles in films Report to the Commissioner alongside Michael Moriarty, and Capone opposite Ben Gazzara. Blakely gained wide critical acclaim with her leading role in the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw. For her performance, Blakely won that year's Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and earned a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. She earned a second Emmy Award nomination the following year when she reprised her role in Rich Man, Poor Man Book II. After her television success, she played leading roles in two movies in 1979: the disaster film The Concorde ... Airport '79 opposite Alain Delon, and the sport drama Dreamer with Tim Matheson. During 1980s and 1990s, Blakely played leading roles in many made-for-television movies. She portrayed Frances Farmer in the 1982 film based on Farmer's autobiography, Will There Really Be a Morning?, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film. She played Eva Braun opposite Anthony Hopkins in the Adolf Hitler biographical film The Bunker, and Joan Kennedy in The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story. She appeared in such feature films as Over the Top, My Mom's a Werewolf, and Hate Crime. She recently guest-starred on This Is Us and NCIS and in past years on Hotel, The Twilight Zone, Falcon Crest, Murder, She Wrote, Nip/Tuck, Brothers & Sisters, Southland, and Cougar Town. Description above from the Wikipedia article Susan Blakely, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
Airports
2025
0.0
This Is Us
as Anne
2016
8.2
Displacement
as Carol Sinclair
2016
5.0
The Perfect Boyfriend
as Clara
2013
4.9
Remember to Breathe
as Kathleen
2013
3.0
Pride
as Theresa
2011
2.0
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
as Vivian Ashe
2011
5.9
The Genesis Code
as Beverly Truman
2010
2.5
Cougar Town
as Betsy
2009
6.5
To Comfort You
as Angela
2009
1.0
Southland
as Linda Sherman
2009
7.9
Mating Dance
as Abby's mother
2008
5.7
Grizzly Park
as Unhappy Camper
2008
4.6
Murder 101: The Locked Room Mystery
as Camilla Meera
2008
7.0
Brothers and Sisters
as Celia Calmartin
2006
7.1
The Perfect Neighbor
as Jeannie Costigan
2005
5.3
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
as Mrs. Madigan
2005
7.6
Hate Crime
as Martha Boyd
2005
5.6
L.A. Twister
as Vivian
2004
4.4
Cold Case
as Mollie Felice (2006)
2003
7.8
NCIS
as Dr. Cadence Darwin
2003
7.6
Two and a Half Men
as Angie
2003
7.4
Nip/Tuck
as Valerie Farrell
2003
7.2
Hungry Hearts
as Barbi Harris
2002
6.5
She Spies
as Katherine McBain
2002
7.6
A Mother's Testimony
as Donna Mulroney
2001
5.0
Crash Point Zero
as Barbara Esmond
2000
3.8
Strong Medicine
as Camille Cantrell
2000
7.3
Chain of Command
as Meg Danforth
2000
5.0
The Perfect Nanny
as Dr. Julia Bruning
2000
6.1
Her Married Lover
as Laura Mannhart
1999
2.6
Twice in a Lifetime
as Tory Van Dyke / Markie James
1999
5.5
Gut Feeling
1999
0.0
Race Against Fear
as Margaret Carlyle
1998
6.1
Color Me Perfect
as Dr. Linda Ryan
1996
5.0
7th Heaven
as Elizabeth Brown
1996
6.4
Co-ed Call Girl
as Teri Halbert
1996
4.3
Seven Sundays
as Alice
1995
7.0
Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders
as Leslie Abramson
1994
7.5
No Child of Mine
as Peggy Young
1993
4.0
Diagnosis: Murder
as Dr. Elaine York
1993
7.1
Diagnosis: Murder
as Gillian
1993
7.1
Walker, Texas Ranger
as Meredith Clancy
1993
6.9
Intruders
as Leigh Holland
1992
6.9
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
as Billie Cobb
1992
5.8
Russian Holiday
as Susan Dennison
1992
4.0
Wildflower
as Ada Guthrie
1991
5.7
Blackmail
as Lucinda
1991
3.2
Step by Step
1991
7.8
🎬
Eddie Dodd
1991
0.0
And the Sea Will Tell
as Gail Bugliosi
1991
5.9
Murder Times Seven
as Gert Kiley
1990
0.0
Dad's A Dog
as Melody McBride
1990
0.0
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
as Alice Lundgren
1990
3.7
Dead Reckoning
as Alex Barnard
1990
3.0
The Incident
as Billie
1990
6.1
My Mom's a Werewolf
as Leslie Shaber
1989
4.5
Baywatch
1989
6.0
🎬
Torn Between Two Fathers
as Jennifer
1989
0.0
Dream a Little Dream
as Cherry Diamond
1989
5.8
Skip E. Lowe Looks at Hollywood
1989
0.0
Ladykillers
as Lilah Corbett
1988
2.2
Hiroshima Maiden
as Betty Bennett
1988
7.0
April Morning
as Sarah Cooper
1988
5.7
Broken Angel
as Catherine Coburn
1988
6.5
Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery
as Patricia Erdain
1987
8.0
Jake and the Fatman
1987
6.2
Over the Top
as Christina Hawk
1987
6.4
The Survivalist
as Linda Ryan
1987
2.4
The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story
as Joan Kennedy
1986
0.0
Annihilator
as Layla
1986
5.0
Blood & Orchids
as Marie Farrell
1986
6.5
Blood & Orchids
as Marie Farrell
1986
6.5
The Twilight Zone
as Linda Wolfe (segment "The Card")
1985
7.8
Stingray
1985
7.2
Stingray
as Evelyn Decter
1985
6.0
International Airport
as Jeanne Roberts
1985
5.0
Murder, She Wrote
as Christina Hellinger
1984
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Pauline Byrne
1984
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Catherine Wayne
1984
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Joyce Hacker
1984
7.5
Finder of Lost Loves
as Jennifer Avery
1984
5.7
The Hitchhiker
as Melody
1983
6.1
Will There Really Be a Morning?
as Frances Farmer
1983
7.0
Hotel
1982
6.8
Falcon Crest
as Anne Bowen
1981
5.5
The Bunker
as Eva Braun
1981
6.2
The Oklahoma City Dolls
as Sally Jo Purkey
1981
1.0
🎬
A Cry for Love
as Polly Harris
1980
0.0
Make Me an Offer
as Joyce Windsor
1980
3.3
The Concorde... Airport '79
as Maggie Whelan
1979
4.7
Dreamer
as Karen Lee
1979
5.3
Secrets
as Andrea Fleming
1977
0.0
Rich Man, Poor Man
as Julie Prescott
1976
7.8
Capone
as Iris Crawford
1975
5.8
Shampoo
as Girl on Street (uncredited)
1975
6.0
Report to the Commissioner
as Patty Butler
1975
6.5
The Towering Inferno
as Patty
1974
7.0
The Lords of Flatbush
as Jane Bradshaw
1974
5.7
The Way We Were
as Judianne
1973
7.0
Savages
as Cecily, a Debutante
1972
5.1
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Sarah Cooper
1951
8.6