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Suzanne Pleshette (born January 31 1937) is an
American actress, most known as Emily Hartley on
The Bob Newhart Show.

Miss Pleshette is also a former Broadway
theater|Broadway leading lady having replaced Anne
Bancroft in The Miracle Worker opposite Patty Duke
to rave reviews. She also played opposite Tom
Poston and Constance Ford in The Golden Fleecing.
Pleshette has been in over two dozen made for
television films and numerous dramas of the late
50's and 60's and 70's; During the 60's and 70's
and she appeared to dominate the drama shows.  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 in The Birds (film)|The Birds
can definitely be an acting lesson on how to
really underplay. In Dr. Kildare, she was
nominated for the Emmy for an episode titled
"Shining Image" where she portrayed a nurse who
was a drug addict. She also gave a memorable
performance in a TV-Film opposite Kim Stanley,
Robert Duvall, Edmond O'Brien and Kim Darby titled
Flesh and Blood.

In the 1964 she married actor Troy Donahue. They
divorced the same year.

In 2001, Suzanne married 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 (language)|English dub of Hayao
Miyazaki's Spirited Away.
 
==Selected filmography==
*The Birds (film)|The Birds
*Battling for Baby

==External links==
* imdb name|id=0687189|name=Suzanne Pleshette

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