1. Susan Florence Anspach was an American stage, film and television actress who had roles in films during the 1970s and 1980s such as Five Easy Pieces, Play It Again, Sam, Blume in Love, Montenegro, Blue Monkey, and Blood Red.
23 Facts About Susan Anspach
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Susan Anspach's mother was Gertrude, a secretary and former singer of Scottish and Irish ancestry.
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Susan Anspach's father was Renald Anspach, a World War II Army veteran and later factory worker, who was of German-Jewish and English descent.
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Susan Anspach's grandfather had disapproved of the marriage and disowned his son.
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Susan Anspach was raised by her great aunt until Susan Anspach was six, when her aunt died.
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Susan Anspach went back to live with her parents in what grew to be an abusive home; she ran away at age 15.
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Susan Anspach graduated from William Cullen Bryant High School in Long Island City in 1960.
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Susan Anspach received a full scholarship to the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.
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Susan Anspach made her professional debut in Thornton Wilder's one-act play Pullman Car Hiawatha at a summer theater in Maryland.
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Susan Anspach starred in several Broadway and off-Broadway shows, including as Sheila, the female lead in the musical Hair.
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Susan Anspach was in a play with Al Pacino while at the Actors Studio.
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Susan Anspach starred off-Broadway in 1965 in A View from the Bridge with Robert Duvall, Jon Voight, and Dustin Hoffman.
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Susan Anspach first came to prominence in the 1970 film Five Easy Pieces, directed by Bob Rafelson and starring Jack Nicholson.
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Susan Anspach followed this with a supporting role in Woody Allen's Play It Again, Sam and a more prominent role in Paul Mazursky's romantic comedy Blume in Love, alongside George Segal and Kris Kristofferson.
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Susan Anspach originally was cast in the role of country singer Barbara Jean in the 1975 film Nashville, but her salary request exceeded the ensemble film's budget; she was replaced by Ronee Blakley.
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Susan Anspach guest-starred in the NBC romantic anthology series Love Story in 1973, in the episode "All My Tomorrows".
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Susan Anspach was raised in the Catholic faith of her mother.
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Susan Anspach said that the church and her psychoanalyst were her "parents" for close to 10 years of her youth.
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Susan Anspach had a daughter, Catherine Curry was born on October 15,1968 and with fellow Hair cast member Steve Curry.
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Susan Anspach married actor Mark Goddard in June 1970 and divorced him in October 1978.
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Susan Anspach married musician Sherwood Ball in 1982 and divorced him in 1988.
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Susan Anspach protested against the racist apartheid system of South Africa.
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Susan Anspach died from heart failure on April 2,2018, aged 75, in her Los Angeles home.