Sue Lyon

Sue Lyon's story leaves me thoughtful rather than dazzled. A teenager from Davenport, Iowa was handed the title role in Kubrick's Lolita and won a Golden Globe before she was really old enough to bear the scrutiny that came with it. I suspect the intensity of that early fame cost her more than it gave. She moved through modeling, film and television under a relentless public gaze, and her life always felt shadowed by that one role. She passed in 2019, but her place in film history is secure, and I want to remember her with the respect a real actor deserves rather than the gossip.

Name (English)

Sue Lyon

Name (Japanese)

スー・リオン

Reading

すー・りおん

Born

July 10, 1946 – December 26, 2019

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Dog

Origin

Davenport, Iowa, United States

Occupation

television actor / film actor / model / child actor / actor

University

Santa Monica College

Awards & achievements

• 1963 Golden Globe Awards
• 1963 Laurel Awards

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue%20Lyon
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AA%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436722

Tags

• Iowa
• television actor
• film actor
• model

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.