Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1917-06-30 (58 years old)
Deathday
1975-03-14
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also known As
Сьюзен Хэйуорд
Edythe Marrenner
Susan Hayward (June 30, 1917 – March 14, 1975) was an American actress. After working as a fashion model in New York, Hayward travelled to Hollywood in 1937 when open auditions were held for the leading role in Gone With the Wind (1939). Although she was not selected, she secured a film contract, and played several small supporting roles over the next few years. By the late 1940s the quality of her film roles had improved, and she achieved recognition for her dramatic abilities with the first of five Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her performance as an alcoholic in Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (1947). Her career continued s...
1967
as Helen Lawson
1949
as Irene Bennett
1952
as Helen Street
1948
as Morna Dabney
1944
as Constance Chesley
1943
as Charmian Kittredge
1956
as Bortai
1942
as Estelle Masterson
1947
as Verna Carlson
1946
as June Goffe
1955
as Lillian Roth
1958
as Barbara Graham
1954
as Leah Fuller
1951
as Bathsheba
1939
as Isobel Rivers
1941
as Millie Pickens
1961
as Rae Smith
1946
as Lucy Overmire
1954
as Messalina
1951
as Vinnie Holt
1952
as Louise Merritt
1967
as Mrs. Sheridan
1938
as Starlet at Table (uncredited)
1955
as Mrs. Jane Hoyt
1942
as Drusilla Alston
1955
as Katie O'Neill
1947
as Angie Evans
1952
as Jane Froman
1951
as Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson
1947
as Tina Bordereau
1964
as Valerie Hayden Miller
1951
as Harriet Boyd
1953
as Rachel Donaldson
1962
as Christine Allison
1949
as Cherokee Lansing
1941
as Hester Stoddard
1943
as Kate Benson
1942
as Genevieve in Priorities Skit
1950
as Eloise Winters
1961
as Content Delville
1965
as (archive footage)
1944
as Mildred Douglas
1944
as Janice Blair
1953
as Ellen Burton
1959
as Gabrielle Dauphin
1948
as Janet Busch
1961
as Ada Gillis
1957
as Dorothy 'Dottie' Peale
1941
as Carol Hopkins
1938
as Gloria Adams
1959
as Mary Sharron
1972
as Dr. Maggie Cole
1963
as Laura Pember
1961
as 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
1944
as Molly Miller
1942
as Tana 'Butch' Mason
2024
as Self (archive footage)
1938
as Telephone operator
1942
as Mrs. Mary Lewis
1939
as Betty McGlen
1938
as Amateur Actress (uncredited)
1943
as Jill Wright
1939
as Judith Schofield
1988
as Self (archive footage)
1967
1972
as Elizabeth Reilly
1972
as Jessie Fitzgerald
2018
as Self (archive footage)
2009
2001
as (archive footage)
2006
as Helen Lawson (archive footage)
2025
as Lucy Overmire (archive footage)
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