Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
6/30/1917
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
Сьюзен ХэйуордEdythe Marrenner
Susan Hayward
Biography
Susan Hayward (June 30, 1917 – March 14, 1975) was an American actress.
After working as a fashion model in New York, Hayward travelled to Hollywood in 1937 when open auditions were held for the leading role in Gone With the Wind (1939). Although she was not selected, she secured a film contract, and played several small supporting roles over the next few years. By the late 1940s the quality of her film roles had improved, and she achieved recognition for her dramatic abilities with the first of five Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her performance as an alcoholic in Smash-Up, t...
Known For
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
as Helen Lawson (archive footage)
Hit Parade of 1943
as Jill Wright
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
as Self (archive)
Among the Living
as Millie Pickens
Tap Roots
as Morna Dabney
Canyon Passage
as Lucy Overmire
Hollywood Hotel
as Starlet at Table (uncredited)
The Conqueror
as Bortai
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
as Dr. Maggie Cole
Stolen Hours
as Laura Pember
The Sisters
as Telephone operator
Back Street
as Rae Smith
The President's Lady
as Rachel Donaldson
The Revengers
as Elizabeth Reilly
Beau Geste
as Isobel Rivers
Woman Obsessed
as Mary Sharron
Tulsa
as Cherokee Lansing
Untamed
as Katie O'Neill
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
as Angie Evans
Ada
as Ada Gillis