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Susan Saint James
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| Susan Saint James | |
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| Birth name | Susan Jane Miller |
| Born | August 14, 1946  Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | Dick Ebersol |
Susan Saint James (born on August 14, 1946 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress, primarily in sitcoms, movies and television.
St. James became a household name at the age of 22, starting as an editorial assistant, Peggy Maxwell, on The Name of the Game, then as Rock Hudson's younger supportive wife, Sally McMillan in the popular 1970s crime drama, McMillan and Wife, and as Jane Curtin's childhood friend, Kate McArdle, in the 1980s sitcom, Kate & Allie.
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Born Susan Jane Miller, she was raised in Rockford, Illinois where she began modeling as a teenager. At the age of 20, she moved to California where she began her acting career. Among her early television appearances was in an episode of the first season of Ironside ("Girl in the Night", 1967). She landed a role in the series The Name of the Game, winning an Emmy Award for her role in 1969. She appeared in the pilot episode of Alias Smith and Jones, shown at the beginning of 1971. From 1971 until 1976, she played Sally McMillan opposite Rock Hudson in the series McMillan and Wife and received four Emmy Award nominations.
She left the show to further her career as an actress in feature films and achieved a significant success in the vampire comedy Love At First Bite (1979).
After other film ventures failed to establish her, she returned to television, appearing in the comedy series Kate & Allie opposite Jane Curtin from 1984 until 1989. She received a further three Emmy Award nominations for this role.
Saint James was also a celebrity and commentator for World Wrestling Federation (WWF)'s WrestleMania 2 event in 1986 along with Vince McMahon. Saint James has acted very infrequently since then and has pursued other business ventures such as Seedling and Pip, a baby gift basket business. She made a rare acting appearance in a guest spot as a defense attorney on the February 28, 2006 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
When she was 21, she married aspiring writer-director Richard Neubert, but their marriage only lasted a year. Saint James then got married a second time, to Thomas Lucas (a makeup artist), and they had a daughter, Sunshine Lucas (born 1972) and a son Harmony Lucas (born 1974). The marriage lasted a few years.
While guest-hosting the venerable NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live in 1981, Saint James met her future third husband, then-SNL executive producer (and now president of NBC Sports) Dick Ebersol. They dated immediately and married within the year. The marriage produced three sons, Charles, William, and Edward (Teddy). In 2002, Saint James filed for divorce from Ebersol, but the couple reconciled a few months later. Saint James stated that she returned to Roman Catholicism following her estrangement from Ebersol in part because, "It's the only way I know how to pray." On November 28, 2004, a plane carrying Ebersol and two of their sons crashed in Colorado; Ebersol and son Charles survived, but son Teddy (age 14 at the time) perished, as did the pilot and flight attendant.
- Susan Saint James' niece Christa Miller (The Drew Carey Show, Scrubs) also had a role in Kate & Allie. Susan also played Christa's mother on an episode of The Drew Carey Show.
- Susan Saint James is a Boston Red Sox fan.