Susan Anspach

Susan Anspach
Born	November 23, 1939 (1939-11-23) (age 69) New York City, New York, United States
Occupation	Film, stage, television actress

Susan Anspach (born November 23, 1939) is an American stage and motion-picture actress.

Private Life

Anspach was born in New York City and was raised in Queens, New York. She graduated from William Cullen Bryant High School in Long Island City in 1960. Paul Simon was a neighbor.^{[citation needed]} She enrolled in the music department at the Catholic University of America. For her sophomore year she transferred to the drama department, where she appeared in the annual musical, "All Systems Are Go."

Anspach has a son, Caleb Goddard (born 1970) with actor Jack Nicholson.

Career

She went on to star in several Broadway and off-Broadway shows, including as the female lead in the musical Hair and an Actors' Studio play with Al Pacino. She first came to prominence opposite Jack Nicholson in the 1970 film Five Easy Pieces. Vincent Canby of The New York Times called her "one of the most charming and talented actresses in America".

She is has starred off-Broadway in A View from the Bridge with Robert Duvall, Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman. In her film career, Susan Anspach starred in 19 features and eight TV movies and also was featured in two series, The Yellow Rose and The Slap Maxwell Story (opposite Dabney Coleman).

Filmography

• Five Easy Pieces 1970, opposite Jack Nicholson
• Play It Again, Sam 1972, opposite Woody Allen
• Blume in Love 1973, opposite George Segal and Kris Kristofferson
• The Big Fix 1978, co-starring with Richard Dreyfuss
• Running 1979, co-starring with Michael Douglas
• The Devil and Max Devlin 1981, opposite Bill Cosby and Elliot Gould
• Gas 1981, a Canadian comedy film in which she played a news reporter.
• Montenegro 1981, a foreign film in which she was a lead with Erland Josephson, Per Oscarson and other Swedish actors.
• Misunderstood 1984, with Gene Hackman

See also

List of CUA alumni

External links

• Susan Anspach at the Internet Movie Database
• Susan Anspach at the Internet Broadway Database
• Susan Anspach at Allmovie