My Take
Susan Blakely is one of those actresses who absolutely should be more famous than she is, and if you've ever seen Rich Man, Poor Man — the 1976 ABC miniseries that had the whole country glued to their TVs — you know exactly why she won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama Series for it. She played Julie Prescott with this raw, vulnerable intensity that felt completely real, and she more than held her own opposite Nick Nolte and Peter Strauss in their breakout roles. Before that she had already shown up in The Towering Inferno, which is as stacked a disaster movie cast as Hollywood ever assembled. Born in Frankfurt and educated at UT El Paso, she's a genuinely underrated talent from the golden era of American television drama, and her Golden Globe win stands as fully deserved recognition for a seriously committed performance.
Overview
Susan Blakely (born September 7, 1948) is an American actress. She is best known for her leading role in the 1976 ABC miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, for which she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and an Emmy nomination for Best Actress. Blakely also has appeared in films including The Towering Inferno (1974), Report to the Commissioner (1975), Capone (1975), The Concorde...
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Susan Blakely
- Name (Japanese)
- スーザン・ブレイクリー
- Reading
- すーざん・ぶれいくりー
- Born
- September 7, 1948 (age 77)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Rat
- Origin
- Frankfurt, Hesse, Francia
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / television actor / film actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of Texas at El Paso
Awards & achievements
- 1976 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.