Susan Blakely
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Susan Blakely (born September 7, 1948) is an American actress and model.
She is best known for her role in the 1976 ABC miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, for which she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama.
Blakely has appeared in films including The Towering Inferno (1974), Report to the Commissioner (1975), and Over the Top (1987).
Early life
Blakely was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and the daughter of American parents, Mary Louise, a retired art teacher, and Colonel Larry Blakely, a career Army officer, was born. She moved to New York and studied with Warren Robertson, Lee Strasberg, Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse and later in Los Angeles with Charles Conrad and Warner Loughlin. She began a modeling career at Ford Modeling Agency in 1967, and in 1970, she appeared in a television commercial for Dippity-Do, a hair styling gel.
Personal life
Blakely married Todd Merer, a lawyer who died in 1969, but divorced in 1981. Steve Jaffe, a media consultant, film and television producer, married Blakely in 1982. They live in Beverly Hills.
Career
Blakely debuted in Hollywood in the early 1970s and began appearing in supporting roles in films including Savages, The Way We Were, and Lords of Flatbush. Patty Simmons appeared in The Towering Inferno, 1976, her first big role. She appeared in films Report to the Commissioner alongside Michael Moriarty and Capone opposite Ben Gazzara over the next year.
Blakely's leading role in the 1976 ABC television miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, based on the 1969 book of the same name by Irwin Shaw, earned her widespread critical esteem. Blakely received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama last year, as well as a nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. When she reprised her role in Rich Man, Poor Man Book II, she received her second Emmy Award nomination the following year. She appeared in two films in 1979: The Concorde 79 opposite Alain Delon, and Tim Matheson's sports drama Dreamer followed her television success.
Blakely appeared in several made-for-television films in the 1980s and 1990s. In 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 Frances Farmer. In the Adolf Hitler biographical film The Bunker (1981), she appeared Eva Braun opposite Anthony Hopkins, and in The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story (1986). She appeared in films including Over the Top (1987), My Mom's a Werewolf (1989), and Hate Crime (2005). She appeared on This Is Us and NCIS, Stingray, Falcon Crest, Murder, Murder, She wrote, Nip/Tuck, Brothers & Sisters, Southland, Two and a Half Men, and Cougar Town in 2008.