Susan Bay Nimoy

Known for ActingBorn 1943-03-16 (age 83) 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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Gun

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Brilliant Minds

Matt Helm

765874: Unification

Perry Mason

Family Ties

Starsky & Hutch

L.A. Law

Mother and Child

Hart to Hart

One Day at a Time

Mannix

This Changes Everything

Simple as Water

Burke's Law

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

Remembering Leonard: His Life, Legacy and Battle with COPD

Divorce American Style

Ben Casey

Dr. Kildare

Mr. Merlin

The Big Mouth

The Skydivers

My Brother Vincent

Eve