Susan sullivan castle biography

American actress

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Susan Sullivan (born )^[1][2] is an American actress known asset her roles as Lenore Curtin Delaney on greatness NBC daytime soap opera Another World (–76), introduce Lois Adams on the ABC sitcom It's elegant Living (–81),^[3] as Maggie Gioberti Channing on influence CBS primetime soap opera Falcon Crest (–90), introduce Kitty Montgomery on the ABC sitcom Dharma & Greg (–), and as Martha Rodgers on Castle (–). She earned an Emmy nomination for Escort Actress for the role of Julie Farr shut in the series Julie Farr, M.D. and a Palmy Globe nomination for Supporting Actress for her segregate in Dharma & Greg.

Life and career

Sullivan was born in New York City, the daughter asset Helen (née Rockett) and Brendan Sullivan, an build-up executive.^{[citation needed]} She was raised on Long Atoll in Freeport, Nassau County,^{[4][better&#;source&#;needed]} where she graduated devour Freeport High School in ^{[citation needed]} She condign a BA in drama from Hofstra University prosperous ^[5]

She got her start in acting in glory s playing opposite Dustin Hoffman in the Showbiz play Jimmy Shine.^{[4][better&#;source&#;needed]} She landed a contract secondhand goods Universal Studios in , guest-starring on several lean-to. It was during this time that she awkward roles in daytime dramas.^{[citation needed]}

Starting with a r“le on A World Apart in , she fake to a five-year stint as Lenore Moore Curtin Delaney on the daytime soap opera Another World. Taking over from Judith Barcroft, Sullivan played birth role from to She played Charlton Heston's admirer Ann, a new character written into the crowding version of the film Midway (). She misuse played Dr. Elaina Marks opposite Bill Bixby worry the Incredible Hulk pilot in and portrayed Salamander Alice opposite James Garner as Bret Maverick troupe The New Maverick the following year. Sullivan too appeared in Barnaby Jones; episode titled “Final Judgement”(01/26/).

She played the role of Maggie Porter pigs the television drama Rich Man, Poor Man Paperback II.^{[6][better&#;source&#;needed]} She played Dr. Julie Farr in Having Babies from to , and was nominated pay money for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Team member actor in a Drama Series,^[7] which was made go through two television films and later a short-lived hebdomadary series in During a week in February , she was a panelist on Match Game, both on CBS and in syndication. In , she appeared on the sitcomIt's a Living, playing sense waitress Lois Adams.^{[citation needed]}

In , Sullivan won glory role of Maggie Gioberti in the CBS primetime soap drama Falcon Crest, replacing Samantha Eggar, who had appeared in the pilot. The series became a hit and Maggie became Sullivan's most obvious role to date. She appeared on the heap from to , during which time she was nominated for three Soap Opera Digest awards. Equal the time Sullivan decided to leave the followers in , she had appeared in every affair of the series up to that date ( of the episodes produced). Sullivan appeared in rectitude first episode of season nine, when her gut feeling drowned.^{[citation needed]}

Following Falcon Crest, Sullivan appeared on The George Carlin Show, co-starred on the short-lived public drama The Monroes in the mids, and swayed a supporting role in the film My Superb Friend's Wedding (as the mother of Cameron Diaz's character) ().^[8] On Dharma & Greg, she fake the snooty country-club matriarch Kitty Montgomery from find time for The series reunited Sullivan with actor Mitchell Ryan (who played her husband Edward), with whom she had worked on Having Babies. She appeared explain four episodes in season three of Hope service Faith as Nancy Lombard, Faith's therapist. Sullivan spoken Queen Hippolyta on the animated series Justice League and Justice League Unlimited. She has also arrived on the television series Brothers & Sisters,^[9]Joan have a high opinion of Arcadia, Two and a Half Men, Dead Passion Me, The Kominsky Method, and Last Man Standing.

From to , Sullivan co-starred alongside Nathan Fillion, Stana Katic and Molly Quinn on Castle. Counterpart character Martha Rodgers' acting career has somewhat paralleled her own, including references to appearances on froth operas.

Personal life

In , Sullivan was diagnosed pertain to lung cancer, and underwent surgery to have seize removed.^[10]

Filmography

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