- Born
- Birth nameSusan Carol Oliver
- Nickname
- Susie
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Canadian born, award- winning actress Susan Carol Oliver, also known as 'Susie'... hosted one of Canada's biggest LIVE Comedy venues "Yuk Yuks" before arriving to LA in 2004. Under management of Ed Smeal, Susan worked with live audiences and great Canadian comics like Wayne Flemming, Jim McAleese and Glen Foster. Alongside hosting, Susan performed stand-up in such places as the infamous Comedy Store on Sunset Blvd, Hollywood.
It was Toronto, that Susan studied with the renowned Second City Troupe on Lombard St. and in her graduate year from Fulcher Toronto School of Dramatic Arts was honored "Best Actress of the Year". Susan continued to win a remarkable 3 out of 6 awards for acting in New York, NY at the international model and talent awards.
Raised in the quaint Victorian-style town of Cobourg Ontario, with two older brothers Susan grew up in the country with the privilege of a stay-at-home Mom, Carol Ann Oliver; a lover of nature and art who became a notable artist in Northumberland and North Fort Myers, Fla. Communities. Susie's Dad, Robert Samuel Oliver (Sam) a comedic and charismatic policeman in the community turned entrepreneur and award winning Realtor.
Oliver switched from theater to film in 2005 and 2006 starring as lead lady in the feature film "Virginia". In 2007, Ms. Oliver became an American Citizen. After a two year intensive with D.W. Brown and Joanne Baron at the prestigious Baron Brown Studios in Santa Monica, Ca she was honored in 2008 as an alumni master Meisner graduate. A form also studied amongst the likes of Anthony Hopkins, Susan Sarandon, Tom Hanks. During this time Ms. Oliver's interest in psychology, behavioral science, and the integrity of motivation tenet led her to also achieve accreditation by HMI College as an American Certified Hypnotist.
Susan's career took off publicly when the press started to take appeal to her. As an entertainment celebrity talk show host Ms. Oliver has interviewed fellow actors as Anne Heche, Sammi Rotibi (Django Unchained), Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween, Scream Queens), Dreama Walker (The Good Wife) and Dennis Haysbert (Heat) and many more for the film company, Real TV Films. The actress also hosted film industry venues such as an hour-and-a-half Live-Stream show for AFM, The American Film Market among others. In the 2012 award winning romantic comedy pilot series "Get a Job", episode five, Susan played the comedic role of 'Vanessa', a mischievous, but good- hearted, overly-tanned and heavy drinking best friend of the lead character played by Danielle Artigo.
The actress stepped away in 2013 to take a two month spiritual sabbatical. As fate had it, two months was destined to be a two and a half year sabbatical journey. Upon Susan's return to her career in early 2015, Oliver's public speaking history brought her into the world of broadcasting as she DJ'd the 9:30a.m. Friday morning show on KCLA FM, an affiliate with XM satellite radio with engineer Lolly Waterman, tunein.com. An opportunity in Brazil arose and Susan left the show for a couple of months to pursue spiritual work in Abadiania, . Although the station voiced they'd welcome Susan back it was her thespian roots and a Peace org. she focused on, booking 40 feature film/television shows at major studios like Fox, WB, Universal, ABC and Raleigh in a short five months when she returned back to the United States in 2015. Due to Susan's lengthy leave of absence she accepted unaccredited roles but gained experience working with such talent as Annette Benning, Helen Hunt, Kerry Washington, Colin Hanks and comedians like Adam Conover and Earnest Adams (Baskets). Susan has performed with notable directors such as Ken Whittingham (Grandfathered, The Office), Andy Ackerman (Seinfeld), Ryan Murphy (Glee, Eat Pray Love), Ben Affleck , and Debbie Allen to name a few.
A former graduate of UCLA for screenwriting, Ms. Oliver has a library of projects evolving pre-production. As a screenwriter, she's been fortunate to contract and work with heroic people. For example, Dr. Shirley McGreal of whom Susan's co-written a feature film drama. Shirley was honored the O.B.E., Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 2008 for her selfless service saving the lives of innocent primates against the dangers of illegal poachers and labs. It is common that the repertoire of Oliver's story-lines involve a suggestive movement inspiring peace.
Susan C. Oliver is an honorary member of Toastmasters; an elite 111 year old non-profit organization for public speakers that focuses on leadership, integrity and service. A passion project for the filmmaker is a Peace Energy Foundation she's begun called "Fearless Freedom" that she aspires to parent and assist through its evolution.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Oliver Ent.
- SpouseKevin Bernhardt(December 25, 2003 - September 2009) (divorced)
- After her 19th birthday, Susan created and opened her own 110 seat licensed restaurant on the harbor front of a little town in Canada called Tobermory. A full bar with nightly entertainment and the infamous Yuk Yuks Comedy Cabaret. Now franchised into 3 locations, she sold it to her ex-husband and brother when she moved to Los Angeles.
- She is a legally certified Hypnotist, accredited by ACCET and the American Hypnosis Association.
- Susan gained her science degree through school by working hands on in a Morgue & Funeral Home. Assistant in the Embalming Room, selling caskets, driving the hearse, assisting burials, consoling and dealing with hospitals and crematoriums... she considered becoming a mortician before she went to Toronto's School of Arts.
- I was fortunate to have an incredibly healthy upbringing. Alongside the fact that my Mom literally called us kids in for dinner with an old fashioned triangle bell... my childhood consisted of snow angels, tobogganing, campfires and beer... wholesome, Canadian and sometimes... all occurring at the same time! Good times.
- Regarding her brief but disciplined stint at Seneca's Canadian Police College: "I loved the fire arms and the militant physical training... but I was kidding myself and searching. I liked the idea of investigations or forensics but I'm attracted to excitement and light... this was 99% boredom and negativity. Life is too short... besides; when they didn't go for the change I wanted to make to the historical Mounted Police uniform (into a short skirt instead of those "thunder thigh" fatty pants)... I knew deep inside, this is just not for me." (Talk City T.V. 1997)
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