Suzanne Pleshette

 Suzanne Pleshette (January 31, 1937 - - January 19 2007) was an American theatre, film television, voice actress.Pleshette started her career in the theatre and then began to appear in films around the end of the 1950s. Later, she was featured in films of note such as Rome Adventure (1962), Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963), and Spirited Away (2001). Later, she appeared in a variety of television productions, mostly in guest actors. She was the actress Emily Hartley, who was born in Brooklyn Heights, New York City on January 31 1937, to Eugene Pleshette and Geraldine Kaplan. Both of her parents were Jewish and were descendants of emigrants from Russia and Austria-Hungary. Her mother was an artist, dancer and performer who went by the stage name of Geraldine Rivers. Her father was a stage manager of the Paramount Theater in Manhattan and of the Paramount Theater in Brooklyn, and later, a network executive.She graduated from Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts and went on to Syracuse University for one semester before being transferred to Finch College. She then graduated from Manhattan's most prestigious acting school called the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre as well as under the guidance of the renowned acting instructor Sanford Meisner