Biography
Susan Kohner is an American retired actress. She is best known for her performance as Sarah Jane in the 1959 film Imitation of Life, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also won a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer – Female for her work around that time.
Kohner appeared in several films in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including The Gene Krupa Story (1959), All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960), By Love Possessed (1961) and Freud: The Secret Passion (1962). She had guest roles in television series such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Rawhide and To Hell and Back (1955). Kohner retired from acting in 1964 after marrying menswear designer John Weitz; their sons Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz are filmmakers.
