Suzy Mandel was partly raised by her grandparents "who owned bars and clubs and holidays camps".
12 Facts About Suzy Mandel
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Suzy Mandel began her career as a coat model but was a catwalk model and later a photographic model.
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Suzy Mandel appears in multiple roles on two 1977 episodes of the series.
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Millington and Suzy Mandel's film, Come Play With Me still stands as one of the longest-running films in British film history, and ran continuously at the Moulin Cinema in London's West End from 1977 to 1981.
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Suzy Mandel studied with noted voice and dialect coach Robert Easton.
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Suzy Mandel continued acting, appearing in the film The Mistress of the Apes.
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Suzy Mandel appears in the 1980 comedy The Private Eyes starring Tim Conway and Don Knotts as Hilda, the Upstairs Maid.
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Suzy Mandel guest starred on television shows like The Love Boat.
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Suzy Mandel appeared in the hardcore film Blonde Ambition, which was shot in New York City in 1977, but only released in 1980.
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Suzy Mandel eventually moved behind the scenes, working on the horror comedy Dead Men Don't Die starring Elliott Gould as well as co-producing Love Bites, starring Adam Ant, in 1993,.
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In 1996, Suzy Mandel revealed in the British newspaper The People that she had quit show business to work as a nurse, caring for people dying from AIDS after several of her friends had died from the disease.
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The 2014 tongue-in-cheek British television documentary The Golden Rules of Porn included Suzy Mandel discussing her roles in the soft-core British comedies Confessions of a Driving Instructor, Come Play with Me, The Playbirds and sharing her thoughts on bad chat-up lines and high heels.