Susan Strasberg

Susan Elizabeth Strasberg was an American stage, film, and television actress. Thought to be the next Hepburn-type ingenue, she was nominated for a Tony Award at age 18, playing the title role in The Diary of Anne Frank. She appeared on the covers of LIFE and Newsweek in 1955. A close friend of Marilyn Monroe and Richard Burton, she wrote two best-selling tell-all books. Her later career primarily consisted of slasher and horror films, followed by TV roles, by the 1980s.

22 May 1938

Born on the same birth date (22 May 1938): Richard Benjamin

Born on the same birth day (22 May): Arthur Conan Doyle • Clara Amfo • Emma Chamberlain • Florian Luger • Francis de Miomandre • Fred Anderson (rugby league) • Gérard de Nerval • Harvey Milk • Heida Reed • Hirose Tansō • Maurice J. Tobin • Pat Smullen • Paul Winfield • Su Xun • Valentin Inzko

Born in the same month (May 1938): Billie Letts • Charles Simic • Geoffrey Robinson (politician) • Herbie Flowers • Igor Ter-Ovanesyan • Ivan Sutherland • Janet Fish • Jason Bernard • Jerry West • John Prescott • K. Bikram Singh • Lee "Shot" Williams • Lyudmila Petrushevskaya • Manuel Santana • Marcia Freedman • Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho • Pervis Jackson • Peter Yarrow • Prince Buster • Raymond Carver • Richard Benjamin • William Bolcom