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Susan Kohner, born 11 November 1936 in Los Angeles, is an American actor working in film and television. The daughter of Lupita Tovar and Paul Kohner, she married John Weitz, and their children are Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz. Her career ran from 1955 to 1964. Kohner was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Imitation of Life
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Film & TV
Acting · Los Angeles, California, USA
Susanna "Susan" Kohner (born November 11, 1936) is an American former actress. She is best known for her role as Sarah Jane in Douglas Sirk's drama Imitation of Life (1959), which earned her a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Kohner has also starred in the films The Gene Krupa Story (1959), for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising…
Known for
- A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story — Self2022
- Channing — Rena Covic1963
- Freud: The Secret Passion — Martha Freud1962
- The Merv Griffin Show — Self1962
- Going My Way1962
- The Nurses — Terry Collins1962
- By Love Possessed — Helen Detweiler1961
- The Dick Powell Show — Miriam Marks1961
- All the Fine Young Cannibals — Catherine McDowall1960
- In the Presence of Mine Enemies — Rachel Heller1960
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Origin
- Boise
Discography
- Willamette Dubs2012
- Dissident2016
- Broken2018
- Beckons2019
- Nightly2020
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3
- Total plays
- 25
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Born as Susanna Kohner in Los Angeles, Kohner is the daughter of Mexican actress Lupita Tovar and Jewish film producer Paul Kohner who was born in Czechoslovakia. Most of Kohner's film roles came during the late 1950s and early 1960s, including co-starring with Sal Mineo in both Dino (1957) and The Gene Krupa Story (1959). In 1959, she was cast as the racially ambiguous Sarah Jane, her most notable role, in the 1959 color remake of Imitation of Life. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Susan+Koh
Recent publications · Crossref
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Key facts
- Born
- Susanna Kohner , ( 1936-11-11 ) November 11, 1936 (age 89) , Los Angeles, California , U.S.
- Other name
- Susan Weitz
- Occupation
- Actress
- Years active
- 1955–1964
- Known for
- Imitation of Life All the Fine Young Cannibals Freud: The Secret Passion
- Spouse
- John Weitz ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1964 ; died 2002 )
- Children
- Paul Weitz Chris Weitz
- Parents
- Paul Kohner (father) Lupita Tovar (mother)
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Susan
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles
- Spouse
- John Weitz
- Child
- Chris Weitz
- Father
- Paul Kohner
- Mother
- Lupita Tovar
- Occupation
- film actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- Susan Kohner in Imitation of Life.jpeg
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- Susan Kohner
- date of birth
- 1936-11-11
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
- start of work period
- 1955-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- end of work period
- 1964-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Susanna "Susan" Kohner (born November 11, 1936) is an American retired actress who worked in film and television. Her best-known role was as "Sarah Jane", a young African-American woman attempting to "pass" as white, in Imitation of Life (1959), for which Kohner was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress. She won two Golden Globe awards for her performance.
Kohner married mens-wear designer and writer John Weitz in 1964. Their two sons, Paul and Chris, were both film directors, producers, screenwriters, and occasional actors.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Susan Kohner” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.