Susan Blakely
66 movies · 32 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Sep 7, 1948 (age 78)
- Place of birth
- Frankfurt, Germany
- Also known as
- Susie Blakely
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.
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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.
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Susan Blakely: movies and TV shows
Acting (98)
- 2025
- 2016
- 2016 Displacement
as Carol Sinclair
- 2013 The Perfect Boyfriend
as Clara
- 2013 Remember to Breathe
as Kathleen
- 2011 Pride
as Theresa
- 2011 Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
as Vivian Ashe
- 2010 The Genesis Code
as Beverly Truman
- 2009
- 2009 To Comfort You
as Angela
- 2009
- 2008 Mating Dance
as Abby's mother
- 2008 Grizzly Park
as Unhappy Camper
- 2008 Murder 101: The Locked Room Mystery
as Camilla Meera
- 2006
- 2005 The Perfect Neighbor
as Jeannie Costigan
- 2005
- 2005 Hate Crime
as Martha Boyd
- 2004 L.A. Twister
as Vivian
- 2003
- 2003
- 2003
- 2003
- 2002 Hungry Hearts
as Barbi Harris
- 2002
- 2001 A Mother's Testimony
as Donna Mulroney
- 2000 Crash Point Zero
as Barbara Esmond
- 2000
- 2000 Chain of Command
as Meg Danforth
- 2000 The Perfect Nanny
as Dr. Julia Bruning
- 1999 Her Married Lover
as Laura Mannhart
- 1999
- 1999
- 1998 Race Against Fear
as Margaret Carlyle
- 1996 Color Me Perfect
as Dr. Linda Ryan
- 1996
- 1996 Co-ed Call Girl
as Teri Halbert
- 1995 Seven Sundays
as Alice
- 1994 Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders
as Leslie Abramson
- 1993 No Child of Mine
as Peggy Young
- 1993
- 1993
- 1992
- 1992 Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
as Billie Cobb
- 1992 Russian Holiday
as Susan Dennison
- 1991 Wildflower
as Ada Guthrie
- 1991 Blackmail
as Lucinda
- 1991
- 1991
- 1991 And the Sea Will Tell
as Gail Bugliosi
- 1991
- 1990 Murder Times Seven
as Gert Kiley
- 1990 Dad's A Dog
as Melody McBride
- 1990 Out of Sight, Out of Mind
as Alice Lundgren
- 1990 Dead Reckoning
as Alex Barnard
- 1990 The Incident
as Billie
- 1989 My Mom's a Werewolf
as Leslie Shaber
- 1989
- 1989 Torn Between Two Fathers
as Jennifer
- 1989 Dream a Little Dream
as Cherry Diamond
- 1989
- 1988 Ladykillers
as Lilah Corbett
- 1988 Hiroshima Maiden
as Betty Bennett
- 1988 April Morning
as Sarah Cooper
- 1988 Broken Angel
as Catherine Coburn
- 1987 Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery
as Patricia Erdain
- 1987
- 1987 Over the Top
as Christina Hawk
- 1987 The Survivalist
as Linda Ryan
- 1986 The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story
as Joan Kennedy
- 1986 Annihilator
as Layla
- 1986
- 1985
- 1985 Stingray
as Evelyn Decter
- 1985
- 1985 International Airport
as Jeanne Roberts
- 1984 Murder, She Wrote · TV
as Christina Hellinger / Pauline Byrne / Catherine Wayne / Joyce Hacker · 4 episodes
- 1984
- 1983
- 1983 Will There Really Be a Morning?
as Frances Farmer
- 1982
- 1981
- 1981 The Bunker
as Eva Braun
- 1981 The Oklahoma City Dolls
as Sally Jo Purkey
- 1980 A Cry for Love
as Polly Harris
- 1980 Make Me an Offer
as Joyce Windsor
- 1979 The Concorde... Airport '79
as Maggie Whelan
- 1979 Dreamer
as Karen Lee
- 1977 Secrets
as Andrea Fleming
- 1976
- 1975 Capone
as Iris Crawford
- 1975 Shampoo
as Girl on Street (uncredited)
- 1975 Report to the Commissioner
as Patty Butler
- 1974 The Towering Inferno
as Patty
- 1974 The Lords of Flatbush
as Jane Bradshaw
- 1973 The Way We Were
as Judianne
- 1972 Savages
as Cecily, a Debutante
- 1951
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1 episode