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Susan Linda Bay Nimoy (born March 16, 1943) is an American actress and director. Among her television appearances, she portrayed Admiral Rollman in two episodes of the television series ''
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'': " Past Prologue" in the first season and " Whispers" in the second. Bay was one of the
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, a group of women directors who created the Women's Steering Committee of the
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, 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,
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.


Career


Acting

Bay first appeared in ''The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis'' (TV series, 1963) and ''The Skydivers'' (film, 1963). She appeared in various TV series throughout the 1960s, including episodes of ''
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'' (1964) and '' Perry Mason'' (1965). Susan Bay's film debut in a leading role occurred in the Jerry Lewis comedy ''
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'' (1967). Bay portrayed Suzie Cartwright, the love interest of Lewis's character, Gerald Clamson. During the 1970s and 1980s, Bay's television roles included episodes of ''One Day at a Time'' (1976), ''Starsky and Hutch'' (1977), ''Hart to Hart'' (1980), ''Family Ties'' (1983) and ''Remington Steele'' (1983). She also had a lead role in the television movie ''Alone at Last'' (1980). She played Admiral Rollman in ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''s first and second season in the episodes "Past Prologue" (1993) and "Whispers" (1994). Bay appeared as Rebecca in the 2009 film ''
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''. In 2019, she began to appear in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC's Anti-Smoking Campaign "Tips from Former Smokers" discussing her late husband's battle with COPD.


Directing

In 1979, Bay and other members of the
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, a group of women directors, created the Women's Steering Committee of the
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, to protest against gender discrimination in Hollywood and support female employment on film and television sets at the directing level. Bay was a production consultant on "The Good Mother" (1988), which was directed by Leonard Nimoy. In 1998, Susan Bay was the executive producer for the documentary film ''Liza Lou'', on the glass bead artist
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. She has also worked on documentaries about ''
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'' and the magazine ''Mother Jones''. In 2007, Bay directed the American premiere of ''Shakespeare's Will'', a solo play by
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that featured
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as Anne Hathaway. 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. 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
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to focus on women in their 70s, and was positively received.


Philanthropy

Bay is a member of the board of directors of the Foundation for National Progress, which publishes the magazine ''
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''. In 1999, Bay and Nimoy made a $100,000 donation to the
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(MOCA) so it could purchase '' The Ballad of Sexual Dependency'' by Nan Goldin. In 2007, they financially supported '' WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution'', an art exhibition at the MOCA. In 2008, they made a $1 million donation to The Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theater at
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.


Personal life

Bay is a cousin of Rabbi John Rosove, of
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, as well as film director
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. In 1978, Bay married actor John Schuck, and their son
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was born in 1981. They divorced in 1983. She married
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in 1989. She was photographed for Nimoy's ''
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'', a book of
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of women representing
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, the
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in
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. She and Nimoy were together until his death in February 2015 in California.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bay, Susan Living people 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses American film actresses American television actresses Jewish American actresses American female models American artists' models Jewish female models Jewish American philanthropists 1943 births Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American Jews