Susan Bay Nimoy (born Susan Linda Bay; March 16, 1943) is an American actress and director. Among her television appearances, she portrayed Admiral Rollman in two episodes of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "Past Prologue" in the first season and "Whispers" in the second.[1]
Susan Bay Nimoy | |
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 Susan Bay, Congressman Adam Schiff, and Leonard Nimoy in 2006 | |
| Born | Susan Linda Bay March 16, 1943 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, director |
| Years active | 1963–present |
| Organization | Foundation for National Progress |
| Spouses | |
| Children | Aaron Bay-Schuck |
| Relatives | Michael Bay (cousin) Adam Nimoy (stepson) Julie Nimoy (stepdaughter) |
Bay was one of the Original Six, a group of women directors who created the Women's Steering Committee of the Directors Guild of America, to protest against gender discrimination in Hollywood. Bay has directed several documentaries, and the American premiere of Shakespeare's Will (2007). She returned to directing in 2018 with Eve, a film addressing issues of aging and mourning. She wrote the script while grieving for her husband, Leonard Nimoy.
Career
editActing
editBay debuted on an episode of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis in 1963.[2] and The Skydivers (film, 1963).[3] She appeared in various TV series throughout the 1960s, including episodes of Dr. Kildare (1964)[4] and Perry Mason (1965).[5] Susan Bay's film debut in a leading role occurred in the Jerry Lewis comedy The Big Mouth (1967). Bay portrayed Suzie Cartwright, the love interest of Lewis's character, Gerald Clamson.[6][7]
During the 1970s and 1980s, Bay's television roles included episodes of One Day at a Time (1976), Starsky and Hutch (1977),[8] Hart to Hart (1980),[9] Family Ties (1983)[10] and Remington Steele (1983). She also had a lead role in the television movie Alone at Last (1980).[11] She played Admiral Rollman in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's first and second season in the episodes "Past Prologue" (1993) and "Whispers" (1994).[12][13] Bay appeared as Rebecca in the 2009 film Mother and Child. In 2019, she began to appear in the CDC's Anti-Smoking Campaign "Tips from Former Smokers" discussing her late husband's battle with COPD.[14]
Directing
editIn 1979, Bay and other members of the Original Six, a group of women directors, created the Women's Steering Committee of the Directors Guild of America, to protest against gender discrimination in Hollywood and support female employment on film and television sets at the directing level.[15]
Bay was a production consultant on "The Good Mother" (1988), which was directed by Leonard Nimoy.[16][17] In 1998, Bay was the executive producer for the documentary film Liza Lou, on the glass bead artist Liza Lou.[18] She has also worked on documentaries about Twyla Tharp and the magazine Mother Jones.[citation needed]
In 2007, Bay directed the American premiere of Shakespeare's Will, a solo play by Vern Thiessen that featured Jeanmarie Simpson as Anne Hathaway.[19]
Susan Bay Nimoy returned to directing in 2018 with Eve, writing the script as she mourned her husband, Leonard Nimoy, and starring in the film after the lead actress pulled out at the last minute due to discomfort with revealing her aging body on film.[20] The lack of representation of "women of age" onscreen was one of Nimoy's motivations in creating the film. Eve was one of five films at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival to focus on women in their 70s,[21] and was positively received.[20]
Philanthropy
editBay is a member of the board of directors of the Foundation for National Progress, which publishes Mother Jones.[22]
In 1999, Bay and Nimoy made a $100,000 donation to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) so it could purchase The Ballad of Sexual Dependency by Nan Goldin.[23] In 2007, they financially supported WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, an art exhibition at the MOCA.[24] In 2008, they made a $1 million donation to The Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theater at Griffith Observatory.[25]
Personal life
editBay is a cousin of Rabbi John Rosove, of Temple Israel of Hollywood,[26] as well as film director Michael Bay.[27]
In 1978, Bay married actor John Schuck, and their son Aaron was born in 1981. They divorced in 1983.[28] She married Leonard Nimoy in 1989.[29] She was photographed for Nimoy's Shekhina, a book of monochrome nude photography of women representing Shekhinah, the presence of God in Judaism.[30] She and Nimoy were together until his death in 2015.[31]
References
edit- ^ Terry J. Erdmann (2000). Deep Space Nine Companion. Simon & Schuster. p. 22. ISBN 0671501062.
- ^ "DOBIE GILLIS {THE MANY LOVES OF DOBIE GILLIS}: THE CALL OF THE, LIKE, WILD (TV)". The Paley Center for Media. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
- ^ Ross, Philip (February 27, 2015). "Who Is Susan Bay Nimoy? Leonard Nimoy's Second Wife Played Admiral Rollman In 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'". IBT (International Business Times). Retrieved December 21, 2020.
- ^ "Dr. Kildare". TV Guide. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
- ^ "#238: The Case of the Duplicate Case". Perry Mason TV Series. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
- ^ "The Big Mouth". www.sensesofcinema.com. November 15, 2020.
- ^ "The Big Mouth". Roger Ebert. August 2, 1967. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
- ^ "CHARACTERS BY EPISODE". A Starsky and Hutch Canon Compendium. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
- ^ "What Murder?". Hart to Hart. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
- ^ "Family Ties Episode Guide". Episode Guides. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
- ^ McFarland, Vincent Terrace (January 17, 2020). Encyclopedia of Television Pilots: 2,470 Films Broadcast 1937-2019 (2nd ed.). McFarland. p. 10. ISBN 9781476638102. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
- ^ Okuda, Michael; Okuda, Denise; Mirek, Debbie (May 17, 2011). The Star Trek Encyclopedia. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781451646887.
- ^ Erdmann, Terry J.; Block, Paula M. (2000). Deep Space Nine Companion. Simon and Schuster. p. 22. ISBN 9780671501068.
- ^ "Leonard N.'s Story". Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. July 15, 2020.
- ^ Syme, Rachel (February 26, 2016). "The Original Six: The Story of Hollywood's Forgotten Feminist Crusaders". Pacific Standard. Retrieved February 26, 2016.
- ^ Harmetz, Aljean (October 30, 1988). "Leonard Nimoy at the Controls". The New York Times. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
- ^ "The Good Mother". www.warnecke.me. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
- ^ "LIZA LOU". 2000 Taipei Biennial. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
- ^ "Exclusive Interview with Leonard Nimoy". Leonard Nimoy (fansite). 2007.
- ^ a b Shriver, Maria (March 4, 2018). "Susan Bay Nimoy Disrupts Ageism With Grief, Passion and Renewal in Her Film, 'Eve'". Maria Shriver's Sunday Paper. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
- ^ Turan, Kenneth (January 8, 2018). "Susan Bay Nimoy's 'Eve' is one of several Sundance films to focus on 'women of age'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
- ^ "Board of Directors". Mother Jones. September–October 1996. p. 4.
- ^ "Art Movements". Popular Photography. May 1999. p. 13.
- ^ "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution". Dwell. May 2007. p. 38.
- ^ "Nimoy, Leonard". Star Trek. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
- ^ Pogrebin, Abigail (2007). Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk about Being Jewish. Broadway Books. p. 198. ISBN 978-0767916134.
- ^ Syme, S. Leonard (2011). Memoir of a Useless Boy. Xlibris. p. 117. ISBN 978-1465339584.[self-published source]
- ^ "Catching Up With 6-Time Trek Guest Star John Schuck". Star Trek.com. September 19, 2014. Retrieved September 20, 2014.
- ^ Hugh Davies (October 31, 2001). "Star Trek Drove Me to Drink, Says Spock". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
- ^ "Nimoy's Photos Explore Femininity of Divinity". Today. May 20, 2004. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
- ^ "RIP Leonard Nimoy, announced by his Susan Bay Nimoy". Dread Central. February 27, 2015. Retrieved February 27, 2015.
