Susan Blakely
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.
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Acted in
This Is Us
2016
as Anne
Displacement
2016
as Carol Sinclair
The Perfect Boyfriend
2013
as Clara
Remember to Breathe
2013
as Kathleen
Pride
2011
as Theresa
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
2011
as Vivian Ashe
The Genesis Code
2010
as Beverly Truman
Cougar Town
2009
as Betsy
Southland
2009
Mating Dance
2008
as Abby's mother
Grizzly Park
2008
as Unhappy Camper
Murder 101: The Locked Room Mystery
2008
as Camilla Meera
Brothers and Sisters
2006
as Celia Calmartin
The Perfect Neighbor
2005
as Jeannie Costigan
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
2005
as Mrs. Madigan
Hate Crime
2005
as Martha Boyd
L.A. Twister
2004
as Vivian
Cold Case
2003
as Mollie Felice (2006)
Two and a Half Men
2003
as Angie
Nip/Tuck
2003
Hungry Hearts
2002
as Barbi Harris
She Spies
2002
as Katherine McBain
A Mother's Testimony
2001
as Donna Mulroney
Crash Point Zero
2000
as Barbara Esmond
Strong Medicine
2000
as Camille Cantrell
Chain of Command
2000
as Meg Danforth
The Perfect Nanny
2000
as Dr. Julia Bruning
Her Married Lover
1999
as Laura Mannhart
Twice in a Lifetime
1999
as Tory Van Dyke / Markie James
Gut Feeling
1999
Race Against Fear
1998
as Margaret Carlyle
Color Me Perfect
1996
as Dr. Linda Ryan
7th Heaven
1996
as Elizabeth Brown
Co-ed Call Girl
1996
as Teri Halbert
Seven Sundays
1995
as Alice
Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders
1994
as Leslie Abramson
No Child of Mine
1993
as Peggy Young
Diagnosis: Murder
1993
as Dr. Elaine York
Diagnosis: Murder
1993
as Gillian
Walker, Texas Ranger
1993
as Meredith Clancy
Intruders
1992
as Leigh Holland
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
1992
as Billie Cobb
Russian Holiday
1992
as Susan Dennison
Wildflower
1991
as Ada Guthrie
Blackmail
1991
as Lucinda
Step by Step
1991
Eddie Dodd
1991
And the Sea Will Tell
1991
as Gail Bugliosi
Murder Times Seven
1990
as Gert Kiley
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
1990
as Alice Lundgren
Dead Reckoning
1990
as Alex Barnard
The Incident
1990
as Billie
My Mom's a Werewolf
1989
as Leslie Shaber
Baywatch
1989
Torn Between Two Fathers
1989
as Jennifer
Dream a Little Dream
1989
as Cherry Diamond
Ladykillers
1988
as Lilah Corbett
Hiroshima Maiden
1988
as Betty Bennett
April Morning
1988
as Sarah Cooper
Broken Angel
1988
as Catherine Coburn
Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery
1987
as Patricia Erdain
Jake and the Fatman
1987
Over the Top
1987
as Christina Hawk
The Survivalist
1987
as Linda Ryan
The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story
1986
as Joan Kennedy
Annihilator
1986
as Layla
Blood & Orchids
1986
as Marie Farrell
Blood & Orchids
1986
as Marie Farrell
The Twilight Zone
1985
as Linda Wolfe
Stingray
1985
as Evelyn Decter
Stingray
1985
International Airport
1985
as Jeanne Roberts
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Christina Hellinger
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Pauline Byrne
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Catherine Wayne
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Joyce Hacker
Finder of Lost Loves
1984
as Jennifer Avery
The Hitchhiker
1983
as Melody
Will There Really Be a Morning?
1983
as Frances Farmer
Hotel
1982
Falcon Crest
1981
as Anne Bowen
The Bunker
1981
as Eva Braun
The Oklahoma City Dolls
1981
as Sally Jo Purkey
A Cry for Love
1980
as Polly Harris
Make Me an Offer
1980
as Joyce Windsor
The Concorde... Airport '79
1979
as Maggie Whelan
Dreamer
1979
as Karen Lee
Secrets
1977
as Andrea Fleming
Rich Man, Poor Man
1976
as Julie Prescott
Capone
1975
as Iris Crawford
Shampoo
1975
as Girl on Street (uncredited)
Report to the Commissioner
1975
as Patty Butler
The Towering Inferno
1974
as Patty
The Lords of Flatbush
1974
as Jane Bradshaw
The Way We Were
1973
as Judianne
Savages
1972
as Cecily, a Debutante
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Sarah Cooper