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 years 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 madefortelevision movies She portrayed Frances Farmer in the 1982 film based on Farmers 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 Moms a Werewolf and Hate Crime She recently gueststarred on This Is Us and NCIS and in past years on Hotel The Twilight Zone Falcon Crest Murder She Wrote NipTuck Brothers Sisters Southland and Cougar Town Description above from the Wikipedia article Susan Blakely licensed under CCBYSAfull list of contributors on Wikipedia