1. Suzanne Pleshette was nominated for three Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.
29 Facts About Suzanne Pleshette
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Suzanne Pleshette started her career in the theatre before gaining attention for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's horror-thriller The Birds.
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Suzanne Pleshette later voiced roles in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride and Spirited Away.
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Suzanne Pleshette was born on January 31,1937, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, to Geraldine and Eugene Pleshette.
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Suzanne Pleshette's parents were Jewish, the children of emigrants from Russia and Austria-Hungary.
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Suzanne Pleshette's mother was a dancer and artist who performed under the stage name Geraldine Rivers.
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Suzanne Pleshette's father was a stage manager of the Paramount Theater in Manhattan and of the Paramount Theater in Brooklyn, and later, a network executive.
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Suzanne Pleshette graduated from Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts and attended Syracuse University for one semester, then transferred to Finch College.
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Suzanne Pleshette later graduated from the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in Manhattan and was under the tutelage of acting teacher Sanford Meisner.
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Five-foot, four-inch Suzanne Pleshette began her career at age 20 as a stage actress.
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Suzanne Pleshette made her Broadway debut in Meyer Levin's 1957 play Compulsion, adapted from his novel inspired by the Leopold and Loeb case.
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Suzanne Pleshette was the better actress, but Sandra was the better singer.
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Immediately following The Birds, Suzanne Pleshette was cast in 40 Pounds of Trouble, a comedy film co-starring Tony Curtis and Phil Silvers, which Curtis was producing through his own film production company, Curtis Enterprises.
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Suzanne Pleshette worked with Steve McQueen in the 1966 western drama film Nevada Smith, was nominated for a Laurel Award for her starring performance in the comedy If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium opposite Ian McShane, and co-starred with James Garner in a pair of films, Support Your Local Gunfighter and the drama Mister Buddwing.
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Suzanne Pleshette was cast as the wife of Newhart's character on the popular CBS sitcom The Bob Newhart Show for all six seasons, as part of CBS television's Saturday night lineup.
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Suzanne Pleshette reprised her role of Emily Hartley in the final episode of Newhart's subsequent comedy series, Newhart, in which viewers discovered that the entire later series had been her husband Bob's dream when he awakens next to her in the bedroom set from the earlier series.
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Suzanne Pleshette had a starring role in Good Morning, Miami, as Mark Feuerstein's grandmother Claire Arnold in season one and played the mother of Katey Sagal's character in the ABC sitcom 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter following John Ritter's death.
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Suzanne Pleshette provided the voices of Yubaba and Zeniba in the English dub of Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki's Academy Award-winning film Spirited Away and the voice of Zira in Disney's direct-to-video film The Lion King II: Simba's Pride in 1998 and sang the song "My Lullaby".
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Suzanne Pleshette appears in beach home movies filmed by Roddy McDowall in 1965.
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Suzanne Pleshette's second husband was oilman "Tommy" Thomas Joseph Gallagher III was born on January 28,1934, in Galveston, Texas, to Thomas Joseph Gallagher Jr.
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Suzanne Pleshette survived lung cancer, and later died of E coli and was buried in Hillside Memorial Park, Culver City, Los Angeles, California.
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Suzanne Pleshette suffered a miscarriage during her marriage to Gallagher, and they were childless.
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Suzanne Pleshette was the cousin of the actor John Pleshette.
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Suzanne Pleshette wrote poems, with some recited on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
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Suzanne Pleshette was later hospitalized for a pulmonary infection and developed pneumonia which caused her to remain in the hospital for an extended period of time.
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Suzanne Pleshette arrived at a Bob Newhart Show cast reunion in September 2007 in a wheelchair, which raised concern about her health, although she insisted that she was "cancer-free".
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Suzanne Pleshette died on January 19,2008, in her Los Angeles home, 12 days shy of her 71st birthday.
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Suzanne Pleshette is buried close to her third husband, Tom Poston, in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.
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Suzanne Pleshette received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television on January 31,2008, the walk's 2,355th star, which was placed in front of Frederick's of Hollywood.