25 Facts About Suzanne Pleshette

Suzanne Pleshette was an American theatre, film, television, and voice actress.

Suzanne Pleshette later appeared in various television productions, often in guest roles, and played Emily Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show from 1972 until 1978, receiving several Emmy Award nominations for her work.

Suzanne Pleshette was born on January 31,1937, in the New York City neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights, to Geraldine and Eugene Suzanne Pleshette.

Suzanne Pleshette's parents were Jewish, the children of emigrants from Russia and Austria-Hungary.

Suzanne Pleshette's mother was a dancer and artist who performed under the stage name Geraldine Rivers.

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.

Suzanne Pleshette graduated from Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts and attended Syracuse University for one semester, then transferred to Finch College.

Suzanne Pleshette later graduated from Manhattan's prestigious acting school, the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre and was under the tutelage of renowned acting teacher Sanford Meisner.

Suzanne Pleshette began her career at age 20 as a stage actress.

Suzanne Pleshette made her Broadway debut in Meyer Levin's 1957 play Compulsion, adapted from his novel inspired by the Leopold and Loeb case.

Suzanne Pleshette was the better actress, but Sandra was the better singer.

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.

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, the drama Mister Buddwing and the western comedy Support Your Local Gunfighter.

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 and sang the song "My Lullaby".

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.

Suzanne Pleshette was nominated twice for the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

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.

In 1990, Suzanne Pleshette portrayed Manhattan hotelier Leona Helmsley in the television movie Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean, which garnered her Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominations.

Suzanne Pleshette suffered a miscarriage during her marriage to Gallagher, and they were childless.

Suzanne Pleshette died the following year, and they are buried close to each other.

Suzanne Pleshette was the cousin of the actor John Pleshette.

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.

Suzanne Pleshette died in the early evening of January 19,2008,12 days shy of her 71st birthday, in her Los Angeles home.

Suzanne Pleshette is buried close to her third husband, Tom Poston, in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.

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.