Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
11/11/1936
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Also Known As
Susanna "Susan" KohnerSusanna Kohner
Susan Kohner
Biography
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 Newcomer – Female, All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960), By Love Possessed (1961), and Freud (1962).
Kohner retired from acting in 1964, after marrying menswear designer John Weitz, with whom she had tw...
Known For
Imitation of Life
as Sarah Jane (18)
A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story
as Self
All the Fine Young Cannibals
as Catherine McDowall
The Last Wagon
as Jolie Normand
Freud: The Secret Passion
as Martha Freud
Dino
as Shirley
Trooper Hook
as Consuela
To Hell and Back
as Maria
By Love Possessed
as Helen Detweiler
The Big Fisherman
as Fara
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
as Rachel Heller
The Gene Krupa Story
as Ethel Maguire