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Susan Bay Nimoy

Susan Bay Nimoy

Actor · b. 1943 · Los Angeles County, California, USA

In 1979, Bay and other members of the "Original Six," a group of women directors, created the Women’s Steering Committee of the Director’s Guild of America, to protest against gender discrimination in Hollywood and support female employment on film and television sets at the directing level. Bay is a member of the board of directors of the Foundation for National Progress, which publishes the magazine Mother Jones. In 2007, Bay directed the American premiere of Shakespeare's Will, a solo play by Vern Thiessen that featured Jeanmarie Simpson as Anne Hathaway. She acted in the 2009 film Mother and Child. Bay is a cousin to Rabbi John Rosove, of Temple Israel of Hollywood,[7] as well as film director Michael Bay. Bay married actor John Schuck, and together they had a son named Aaron. The couple divorced in 1983. In 1987, Sandra Zober and Leonard Nimoy were divorced and over a year later he married Bay. In 1999, Bay and Nimoy made a $100,000 donation to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) so it could purchase The Ballad of Sexual Dependency by Nan Goldin. In 2007, they financially supported WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, an art exhibition at the MOCA. In 2008, they made a $1 million donation to The Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theater at Griffith Observatory. Bay appeared as a model in Nimoy's Shekhina, which is a book of monochrome nude photography of women representing Shekhinah, the presence of God in Judaism. She and Nimoy were together until his death in February 2015 in California.

Series15

  • TV7.7

    Perry Mason

    1957 · 140 votes

  • TV7.9
  • TV6.9

    Mannix

    1967 · 57 votes

  • TV7.0

    L.A. Law

    1986 · 81 votes

  • TV5.7

    Dr. Kildare

    1961 · 19 votes

  • TV7.2

    Family Ties

    1982 · 280 votes

  • TV5.9

    Ben Casey

    1961 · 15 votes

  • TV6.9

    Hart to Hart

    1979 · 135 votes

  • TV7.3

    Starsky & Hutch

    1975 · 209 votes

  • TV6.2

    Burke's Law

    1963 · 12 votes

  • TV6.8

    One Day at a Time

    1975 · 64 votes

  • TV6.3
  • TV7.3

    Brilliant Minds

    2024 · 76 votes

  • TV7.8

    Matt Helm

    1975 · 6 votes

  • TV5.5

    Mr. Merlin

    1981 · 7 votes

Movies9

  • Movie6.6

    Mother and Child

    2009 · 168 votes

  • Movie6.2

    This Changes Everything

    2019 · 42 votes

  • Movie5.3

    The Big Mouth

    1967 · 32 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Divorce American Style

    1967 · 26 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie5.5
  • Movie8.7

    The Gun

    1974 · 3 votes

  • Movie2.6

    The Skydivers

    1963 · 20 votes

  • Movie

    Eve

    2018