Susan Bay Nimoy
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.
Acting
TV
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
as Admiral Rollman
1993
TV
Family Ties
as Julia Newman
1982
TV
Starsky & Hutch
1975
Movie
Mother and Child
as Rebecca
2009
TV
Perry Mason
as Millie Cornwall
1957
TV
Hart to Hart
1979
TV
L.A. Law
as Mrs. Coleman
1986
TV
Brilliant Minds
as June Sullivan
2024
TV
One Day at a Time
1975
TV
Mannix
1967
Movie
This Changes Everything
as Self
2019
Movie
The Big Mouth
as Suzie Cartwright
1967
Movie
Divorce American Style
as Waitress (uncredited)
1967
Movie
The Skydivers
1963
TV
Dr. Kildare
as Nurse Leah Bradley
1961
TV
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1959
TV
Ben Casey
1961
TV
Burke's Law
as Eileen
1963
TV
Mr. Merlin
1981
TV
Matt Helm
as Mrs. Brennan
1975
Movie
The Gun
as Joyce
1974
Movie
Remembering Leonard: His Life, Legacy and Battle with COPD
as Herself
2017
Movie
My Brother Vincent
as Self
2018
Movie
Eve
as Eve
2018