Suzanne Pleshette

Suzanne Pleshette (born January 31 1937) is an American actress, best known as "Emily Hartley" on The Bob Newhart Show in the 1970s. She is a cousin of Knots Landing actor John Pleshette.

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Miss Pleshette is also a former Broadway leading lady, having replaced Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker opposite Patty Duke to rave reviews. She also played opposite Tom Poston and the late Constance Ford in The Golden Fleecing. Pleshette has been in over two dozen made for television films and numerous dramas of the late '50s and '60s and '70s; during the '60s and '70s and she appeared to dominate the drama shows.

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Her Emmy and Golden Globe nominated performance in Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean is riveting, played to the hilt, and spine-chilling. Her small but underplayed role of "Annie Hayworth" in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds can definitely be an acting lesson on how to really underplay.

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In Dr. Kildare, she was nominated for an Emmy Award for an episode titled "Shining Image," in which she portrayed a nurse who was a drug addict. She also gave a memorable performance in a made-for-TV film opposite Kim Stanley, Robert Duvall, Edmond O'Brien and Kim Darby titled Flesh and Blood.

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In 1964, Pleshette married now-deceased actor and Rome Adventure co-star Troy Donahue and they divorced eight months later. She married Thomas Gallagher in 1968 and they were happily married until his death from cancer on January 21, 2000. She has never had children.

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In 2001, Suzanne married much older former co-star, comic actor Tom Poston who played "The Peeper", a college friend of Bob Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show. She also did the voices of Yubaba and Zeniba in the English dub of Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away.

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She appeared in the ABC sitcom 8 Simple Rules after John Ritter's death in September 2003; she played the mother of Katey Sagal's character. She has also guest-starred in the NBC sitcom Will & Grace as Lois Whitley, the estranged mother of Megan Mullally's character, Karen Walker.

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January 31: January 31 is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 334 days remaining, (335 in leap years). January 31 is also the last day of January....

1937: 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar)....

The Bob Newhart Show: The Bob Newhart Show is the name of two different television series....

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