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Suzanne Grossmann (December 21, 1937 – August 19, 2010) was a Swiss-American actress, playwright and television writer, born in Basel, Switzerland. She later lived and studied in Brazil, Canada, and the USA. Having first obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree at McGill University, in Montreal, Quebec, Grossmann was among the first graduates of the National Theatre School of Canada in 1963.

Grossmann made her Broadway debut in James Goldman's The Lion in Winter, playing Alais. In 1968 she was Roxane to Robert Symonds' Cyrano in a revival of Cyrano de Bergerac. A revival of George Kelly's The Show-Off, starring Helen Hayes, followed later that year, and, in 1970, she played Sybil Chase in Private Lives opposite the Elyot and Amanda of Brian Bedford and Tammy Grimes.

Soon after, she turned her talents to writing for stage and television. With Paxton Whitehead, a fellow actor, she translated and adapted Georges Feydeau's farce There's One in Every Marriage for the Broadway stage in 1971, followed by Feydeau's Chemin de Fer. As a screenwriter for television, she wrote more than 100 episodes for the popular, long-running television soap opera Ryan's Hope.

References

1. Obituary Los Angeles Times, August 25, 2010; page AA6.

External links

• Suzanne Grossmann at IMDb
• Variety obituary, August 24, 2010, Stage Actress, scribe Grossmann dies
• LA Times obituary, August 25, 2010

• 1937 births
• 2010 deaths
• American stage actresses
• American soap opera actresses
• American television writers
• National Theatre School of Canada alumni
• Actors from Basel-Stadt
• Swiss emigrants to the United States
• 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
• American women television writers
• 20th-century American actresses
• 21st-century American women