Biography
Like her TV contemporaries Ron Howard and Valerie Bertinelli, actress Susan Dey grew up before the eyes of America. In 1970, the eighteen-year-old Dey was cast as Laurie Partridge on the popular sitcom
The Partridge Family, garnering excellent reviews from critics who otherwise wrote off the series as a waste of time. As early as the 1975 TV movie
Cage without a Key, Susan was struggling to break away from her goodie-goodie
Partridge image. She almost succeeded with her nude love scene in the 1977 theatrical feature
First Love, but audiences still preferred to see Susan in such roles as Jo March in the 1977 made-for-TV
Little Women. Also in 1977, she starred in the obscure television series Loves Me, Loves me Not. In 1986, she accepted the role of no-nonsense attorney Grace Van Owen in the courtroom television drama LA Law, and in 1992, Susan was permitted to flex her comedy muscles once more as Wallace Porter in the weekly sitcom
Love and War, though she grew dissatisfied with her role and left the series in 1993. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide