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Susan Blakely

Susan Blakely

Birthday: 1948-09-07 | Place of Birth: Frankfurt, Germany

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2016
Displacement

as    Carol Sinclair

2013
The Perfect Boyfriend

as    Clara

2008
Grizzly Park

as    Unhappy Camper

2005
The Perfect Neighbor

as    Jeannie Costigan

2005
Hate Crime

as    Martha Boyd

2000
Crash Point Zero

as    Barbara Esmond

2000
The Perfect Nanny

as    Dr. Julia Bruning

1999
Her Married Lover

as    Laura Mannhart

1996
Co-ed Call Girl

as    Teri Halbert

1992
Intruders

as    Leigh Holland

1992
Russian Holiday

as    Susan Dennison

1991
Wildflower

as    Ada Guthrie

1991
And the Sea Will Tell

as    Gail Bugliosi

1991
Blackmail

as    Lucinda

1990
Dead Reckoning

as    Alex Barnard

1990
Out of Sight, Out of Mind

as    Alice Lundgren

1989
Dream a Little Dream

as    Cherry Diamond

1989
My Mom's a Werewolf

as    Leslie Shaber

1988
Hiroshima Maiden

as    Betty Bennett

1988
Broken Angel

as    Catherine Coburn

1988
Ladykillers

as    Lilah Corbett

1988
April Morning

as    Sarah Cooper

1987
Over the Top

as    Christina Hawk

1987
The Survivalist

as    Linda Ryan

1985
International Airport

as    Jeanne Roberts

1983
Will There Really Be a Morning?

as    Frances Farmer

1980
A Cry for Love

as    Polly Harris

1979
The Concorde... Airport '79

as    Maggie Whelan