Susan Miller Bio
Susan Miller is an American actress, glamour and nude model. She was born on March 22, 1947, in New York City, New York. Playboy named her its September 1972 Playmate at 25. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
Miller has natural breasts, blue eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 39-25-39.
Her centerfold was shot by Mario Casilli, the polished studio hand whose lighting and portraiture suited her long lines; the session also left a small piece of trivia in the record books—at the time she was the tallest woman to pose for the magazine. That polished image caught attention not merely for scale but for the kind of presence that read as both classical and contemporary on the page.
At home she came from a household threaded through New York’s visual trades: her father worked for The New York Daily News, and her mother specialized in fashion for tall women. Beauty-pageant experience preceded her publicity—she was a runner-up in the 1965 Miss New York contest—an early marker of how she put height and poise to public use long before cameras made her a familiar silhouette.
A spell in England followed the photographic work. She spent three years living with British writer and director Patrick Garland, a period that interrupted and broadened the usual American-model itinerary and left her returning to the United States with a different set of options. Back home she tried her hand at acting, taking small but varied parts that kept her in front of the camera rather than simply in stills.
Her screen credits include a film debut in Branches and bit parts that placed her in mainstream entertainment—Woody Allen’s Sleeper, the made-for-television adventure Gold of the Amazon Women, and guest turns on series such as Lou Grant and Starsky and Hutch. After a brief run in that world she stepped away from the spotlight and built a quieter professional life as a massage therapist, a practical, hands-on vocation that closed the book on one chapter without theatrical flourish and opened another entirely her own.
