Susan Anspach

Susan Anspach was an American actress.

Anspach began her career on the New York stage in 1965 in Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge (opposite Robert Duvall and Jon Voight) off-Broadway, and as the star of Terrence McNally's And Things That Go Bump in the Night on Broadway.

She starred as the hippie Sheila in the original off-Broadway production of Hair but did not accompany the musical when it transitioned to Broadway for a wildly successful 1968-72 run. (Lynn Kellogg played Sheila in that version and then Beverly D'Angelo portrayed her in Milos Forman's 1979 movie adaptation.)

Anspach was best known for her roles in films during the 1970s such as Five Easy Pieces (1970), Play It Again, Sam (1972), and Blume in Love (1973).

She made guest star appearances on such television series as The Defenders, The Patty Duke Show, Judd for the Defense, McMillan & Wife, Empty Nest, and Murder, She Wrote.

Anspach died April 2, 2018, in Los Angeles, California. She was 75.