SUSAN DEY- 67


Remember Susan Dey? She was one of the stars in the ’70s show The Partridge Family. Susan attended Columbus Elementary School in Thornwood, New York, later moving to Mount Kisco, New York, where she graduated from Fox Lane High School in 1970. Dey’s first film role was as a passenger in the 1972 airline hijack movie Skyjacked, starring Charlton Heston. Then she started her career. She hosted a 1992 episode of Saturday Night Live.

Later that year, Dey co-starred in the sitcom Love & War, but she was replaced in 1993 by Annie Potts. She also portrayed deputy district attorney Grace Van Owen on the legal drama L.A. Law, for which she garnered the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama Series in 1988. In 2004, Dey retired from the acting industry. Susan Dey once said: ‘I’ve had women come up to me and say I was the reason they went to law school. ’

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