Susan Elizabeth Strasberg

 Susan Elizabeth Strasberg (May 22, 1938 – January 21, 1999)

She was the daughter of legendary Actors Studio co-founder Lee Strasberg and Paula Strasberg, and attended the High School of Performing Arts in New York City. Strasberg made her debut on stage at age fifteen in the off-Broadway play "Maya" (1953). During this time, she initiated her TV career with roles on the programs Goodyear Playhouse, Kraft Television Theater and a starring part in the short-lived series The Marriage (1954). In 1955, she launched her motion picture career in the Vincente Minnelli film "The Cobweb", followed by Joshua Logan's "Picnic" (1955), and received acclaim with her original portrayal of Anne Frank in the Broadway production of "The Diary of Anne Frank" (1955 to 1957), which earned her a Tony Award nomination and her gracing the cover of Life Magazine. She followed this with "Time Remembered" (1957 to 1958) .

Strasberg returned to the US to appear on Broadway in The Lady of the Camellias (1963), directed by Franco Zeffirelli. The director said Strasberg had the qualities of being "romantic, cynical, classical, contemporary." She later began to concentrate on television, guest-starring on Dr Kildare, Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, Breaking Point, Burke's Law, and The Rogues. In the late 1960s & 1970s Strasberg did mostly TV: The Big Valley; The Virginian; Bonanza; Lancer; The Name of the Game; Premiere; The F.B.I.; CBS Playhouse; Marcus Welby, M.D.; The Streets of San Francisco; Night Gallery; and The Rockford Files, among others series. Her later career primarily consisted of slasher and horror films in the 1980s. Her last performances included the biopic Schweitzer (1990), the action movie Prime Suspect (1990) with Frank Stallone and Il giardino dei ciliegi (1992)

Strasberg married actor Christopher Jones in 1965, with whom she had appeared in an episode of The Legend of Jesse James. Their daughter, Jennifer Robin, was born six months later. The couple divorced in 1968 due to her husband's mental instability. In the mid-1990s Strasberg was diagnosed with breast cancer. Although believed to be in remission, she died of the disease at her home in New York City on January 21, 1999, at age 60.