Golden Globe Award for Best New Star of the Year – Actress
Movies
Playing with Fire, New Jersey Turnpikes, Lena's Holiday, The Boy Who Loved Trolls, Cannonball Run II, Spring Fever, Goldengirl
TV Shows
Presenting Susan Anton, Mel and Susan Together
Star Sign
Libra
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Trademark
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Statuesque, model-like figure
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Platinum blonde hair
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Deep husky voice
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Fact
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Currently living in Las Vegas, Nevada. [August 2009]
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Her hobby is golf.
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At age 19, she appeared on the game show Password All-Stars (1961), but did not win the game.
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Was a contestant in the Miss America contest in 1969 and was 2nd runner-up.
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A 1970s blonde-maned dazzler in the Farrah Fawcett tradition best known for her role as "Susan Williams" in the television series Stop Susan Williams (1979) and her musical show Presenting Susan Anton (1979), a recurring role on the television series Baywatch (1989) and several television movies.
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Made the tabloid news in the early 1980s, when she ignited a romantic relationship with a then-married Sylvester Stallone. In the early 1990s, Anton was seeing British film star Dudley Moore, with much ado about their difference in height -- he was 5' 2-1/2" and she was 5' 11".
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Has headlined at Manhattan's Rainbow & Stars cabaret room.
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Voted "Miss Murial" in the 1970s. Viewers selected her from two other ladies as the new spokesperson for Murial cigars
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Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1979" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 31. [1979]
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Miss California 1969
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens
2016
TV Movie
Betty (Gambler)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
2010
TV Series
Jenny Coswold
Playing with Fire
2008
Sandra Newell
Whistlin' Dixie
2004
Short
Dixie Dawson
New Jersey Turnpikes
1999
City Guys
1997
TV Series
Mrs. Anderson
Baywatch
1992-1994
TV Series
Jackie Quinn
The Larry Sanders Show
1993
TV Series
Susan Anton
Civil Wars
1993
TV Series
Cassie Strait
The Ben Stiller Show
1992
TV Series
Susan Anton
Dangerous Curves
1992
TV Series
Ellen Tarbuck
Blossom
1991
TV Series
Suzy
Lena's Holiday
1991
Sara
Out of This World
1990
TV Series
Sandy Martin
Quantum Leap
1990
TV Series
Helen Le Baron
Night Court
1990
TV Series
Margo Hunter
The Famous Teddy Z
1989
TV Series
Esther Luna
Murder, She Wrote
1986-1989
TV Series
Celia James / Christine Clifford
Options
1989
Princess Nicole (in telefilm epilogue)
My Secret Identity
1988
TV Series
Susan Anderson
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1988
TV Series
Diane Lewis
Jonathan Winters: On the Ledge
1987
TV Movie
Hotel
1987
TV Series
Linda Davis
Making Mr. Right
1987
Soap Opera Actress (uncredited)
Hardesty House
1986
TV Movie
Charlotte Montgomery
The New Mike Hammer
1984
TV Series
Noelle Roberts
The Boy Who Loved Trolls
1984
TV Movie
Kalotte
Cannonball Run II
1984
Jill, Lamborghini Babe
The Love Boat
1983
TV Series
Leslie Webb
Spring Fever
1982
Stevie Castle
The Girl Who Saved the World
1979
TV Movie
Susan Williams
Goldengirl
1979
Goldine Serafin
Stop Susan Williams
1979
TV Series
Susan Williams
Switch
1977
TV Series
Marcy
Hunter
1977
TV Series
Cissy
Wizards
1977
Princess Elinore / The Balladeer (singing voice, uncredited)
Police Story
1976
TV Series
Party Girl #2
Serpico
1976
TV Series
Model
The Great American Beauty Contest
1973
TV Movie
Betty Sue Allen - Last Year's Queen
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Baywatch
1992-1994
TV Series performer - 2 episodes
The 40th Annual Tony Awards
1986
TV Special performer: "Papa, Wont You Dance with Me?", "Do-Re-Mi", "It Takes a Moment"
The 39th Annual Tony Awards
1985
TV Special performer: "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", "A Little Girl from Little Rock", "I've Got Your Number", "Memory"
Spring Fever
1982
performer: "Easy Lover"
Goldengirl
1979
performer: "Slow Down I'll Find You"
Wizards
1977
performer: "Only Time Will Tell"
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Speed of Life
2008
Short executive producer
The Last Real Cowboys
2000
Short executive producer
Music Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Wizards
1977
singing voice: Jesse Welles - uncredited
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Sex in '69: The Sexual Revolution in America
2009
Documentary
Herself
Queer Eye
2006
TV Series
Herself
CMT: Greatest Miss America Moments
2006
TV Special
Herself
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
2005
Documentary
Herself
Ask Rita
2003
TV Series
Herself
TVography: Suzanne Somers - Mastering Success
2002
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Hollywood Squares
2002
TV Series
Herself - Panelist
Christmas with the Stars
2001
TV Movie
Herself
The Test
2001
TV Series
Herself - Panelist
Pizza Hut Celebraty
1997
Short
Herself
The Magic of Christmas
1995
TV Movie
Herself - Singer
Maury
1993
TV Series
Herself
Vicki!
1993
TV Series
Herself
Circus of the Stars #16
1991
TV Special documentary
Herself
The Chuck Woolery Show
1991
TV Series
Herself
Up All Night
1991
TV Series
Herself
The Home Show
1989
TV Series
Herself - Co-Hostess
The Pat Sajak Show
1989
TV Series
Herself
The 2nd Annual American Comedy Awards
1988
TV Special
Herself - Audience Member
It's Garry Shandling's Show.
1987
TV Series
Herself
Mr. Belvedere
1987
TV Series
Herself
The 40th Annual Tony Awards
1986
TV Special
Herself - Presenter & Performer
Super Password
1986
TV Series
Herself - Celebrity Contestant
The 39th Annual Tony Awards
1985
TV Special
Herself - Presenter & Performer
Plácido Domingo: Stepping Out with the Ladies
1985
TV Special
Herself
This Is Your Life
1984
TV Series
Herself
Lou Rawls Parade of Stars
1983
TV Series
Herself
2 on the Town
1983
TV Series
Herself
The 40th Annual Golden Globe Awards
1983
TV Special
Herself
Suzanne Somers... And 10,000 G.I.'s
1983
TV Movie
Herself
Battle of the Beat
1983
TV Movie
Herself
That's TV
1982
TV Movie
Herself
The Shape of Things
1982
TV Series
Herself
The 54th Annual Academy Awards
1982
TV Special documentary
Herself
Night of 100 Stars
1982
TV Special
Herself
The 39th Annual Golden Globe Awards
1982
TV Special documentary
Herself
The American Music Awards
1982
TV Special
Herself
Christmas in Hawaii
1981
TV Movie
Herself
Stand Up and Cheer for the National Football League's Sixtieth Year
1981
TV Special
Herself
The Magic of David Copperfield IV: The Vanishing Airplane
1981
TV Special
Herself
The Merv Griffin Show
1978-1981
TV Series
Herself
New American Bandstand 1965
1981
TV Series
Herself
The 8th Annual American Music Awards
1981
TV Special
Herself - Presenter
The Midnight Special
1980
TV Series
Herself
The Tim Conway Show
1980
TV Series
Herself
The American Movie Awards
1980
TV Special
Herself - Performer
Good Morning America
1979
TV Series
Herself
Presenting Susan Anton
1979
TV Series
Herself - Hostess
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1976-1979
TV Series
Herself
The Mike Douglas Show
1978-1979
TV Series
Herself - Vocalist
The 6th Annual American Music Awards
1979
TV Special
Herself - Presenter
The Making of 'Golden Girl'
1979
TV Movie documentary
Herself
The Hollywood Squares
1978
TV Series
Herself - Panelist
Mel & Susan Together
1978
TV Series
Herself - Co-Hostess
The Redd Foxx Special
1978
TV Special
Herself
The Jim Nabors Show
1978
TV Series
Herself
The 1978 Cerebral Palsy Telethon Benefit
1978
TV Movie
Herself - Performer
The Alan Hamel Show
1978
TV Series
Herself
Archive Footage
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1985
Razzie Award
Razzie Awards
Worst Supporting Actress
Cannonball Run II (1984)
1980
Golden Globe
Golden Globes, USA
New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture - Female
Goldengirl (1979)
Known for movies
Cannonball Run II (1984) as Jill, Lamborghini Babe
Goldengirl (1979) as Goldine Serafin
Spring Fever (1982) as Stevie Castle
The Magic of David Copperfield IV: The Vanishing Airplane (1981) as Herself