Award-winning Canadian actress Susan Clark, born on March 8, 1943, tookup acting at an early age (12) in her hometown of Sarnia, Ontario. Herfamily moved to Toronto around that period of time and she joined theToronto Children's Players Theatre. Her first professional curtain calltook place on the musical stage in a 1955 production of "SilkStockings" which starred veteran actorDon Ameche.

The "acting bug" bit hard and a very determined Susan pressed herfamily to allow her to study at London's prestigious Royal Academy ofDramatic Arts. She gained valuable experience in repertory, making herLondon debut in "Poor Bitos" in the early 1960s. She even got a tasteof on-camera work when she won multiple roles on a 1965 episode ofThe Benny Hill Show (1957).Returning to Canada, however, due to the illness of her father, shesubsequently decided to trek, instead, to Los Angeles to continue herprofessional career. In search of on-camera work, she attracted noticein some guest roles on TV and this eventually led to a Universalcontract. The ten-year contract was one of the last of its kind asHollywood was witnessing the demise of the studio contract system.

After gaining some exposure on episodes ofThe Virginian (1962) andRun for Your Life (1965),Susan's first screen assignment for Universal was as the second femalelead in the soap-styled dramaBanning (1967) starringRobert Wagner, in one of histypical jet-setting playboy parts, and the scintillatingJill St. John, who would wed her "Banning"leading man two decades later. From there, Susan only grew in stature.Playing the second female lead again in the critically-praised crimerKeiji Madigan (1968) starringRichard Widmark andInger Stevens, she finally earned topfemale billing oppositeClint Eastwood inManhattan mushuku (1968) playing asexy parole officer and enjoying romantic clinches with theup-and-coming film icon on film.

Tall and willowy with incandescent blue eyes, Susan continued toimpress on celluloid with roles inTell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969),Valdez Is Coming (1971) and, inparticular,Seibu muhô-den (1971). It was70s TV-movies, however, that would take full advantage of Susan'svibrant, intelligent acting talents. First came the tender-heartedmini-movie男ひとたび立てば (1968).While a vehicle for Bonanza'sDan Blocker,co-star Susan made a strong, spunky impression as his small-townromantic interest. This was followed by choice roles inThe Challengers (1970)andThe Astronaut (1972).

1975 was a banner year for Susan who not only provided a couple ofexcellent scenes asGene Hackman's wife inthe film-noirNight Moves (1975) but,made a resounding, Emmy-winning impression on TV audiences as feministtrack-and-field Olympian-turned-golf starBabe Didrikson Zaharias, who islater felled by cancer, in the TV mini-bioBabe (1975). This was a pronouncedvictory for Susan both professionally and personally for it was on thisset that she met her second husband, co-starAlex Karras, who played Babe's spouseGeorge. Susan was in immediate demand and was quickly cast as anotherfeisty, ill-fated heroine, this time in the form of famed aviatrixAmelia Earhart (1976).Predictably, Susan was wonderful and earned a second Emmy nominationfor her efforts (she didn't win).

She and Karras (who had a child, Katie, in 1980) went on to jointly actin and/or produce various film and TV projects, including the TV moviesJimmy B. & André (1980),andMaid in America (1982),and the filmsNobody's Perfekt (1981) andPorky's (1981). This culminated in theirbiggest collaborative effort with the sitcom seriesWebster (1983) wherein both wereunmercifully upstaged by the hopelessly cute antics of its tyke starEmmanuel Lewis. While the series hardlytested the couple's acting mettle and the plot was pretty much a"Diff'rent Strokes" rehash, the show proved quite popular on its ownand put Clark and Karras firmly on the TV map between 1983 to 1988.Susan, herself, earned a Golden Globe nomination for "Best Actress in aComedy Series".

Following the sitcom' demise, Susan relinquished the limelight a bitand found contentment on the local Southern California stage. Relishingacting challenges in such wide-ranging plays as "Meetin's on the Porch"(1990) withPatty Duke andCarrie Snodgress, "Afterplay" (1998),"Bicoastal Women" (2003) and "The Importance of Being Earnest" (2004)(as Lady Bracknell), she eventually became a dedicated member of theRubicon Theater Company in Los Angeles, gracing such plays there as"The Glass Menagerie", "Dancing at Lughnasa", "The Devil's Disciple"and, most recently, "A Delicate Balance."

Featured in the TV movies極寒の１０００マイル (1994),Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story (1994) andToe Tags (1996), she was last seen on camera co-starring in the dramatic TV seriesEmily of New Moon (1998) as ever-rigid Aunt Elizabeth, who assists in raising her orphaned niece.

Susan has a daughter, Katie, by husband Karras who died of kidney failure in 2012.