Susan Hogan

• Birthplace — Scarborough, Ontario, Canada • Occupation — Actress • Years Active — 1976–present • Spouse — Michael Hogan • Children — 3, including Gabriel

Born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario, she chose to pursue acting as a career after being cast as Abigail in her high school production of The Crucible. She attended the National Theatre School of Canada beginning in 1966. After graduating, she began appearing in theatre productions in Toronto and at the Stratford Festival, although due to her blonde, green-eyed beauty she became typecast in ingenue roles until breaking through to wider notice as Stas in a 1978 production of Pam Gems's play Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi.

In 1979, The Globe and Mail theatre critic Bryan Johnson named Hogan one of the year's best actresses for her performance in John Murrell's Waiting for the Parade. In 1981, she injured her knee during a preview performance as Kate in a production of The Taming of the Shrew. Although forced to withdraw from a handful of performances, she was able to return to the role. In 1983, Hogan and her husband Michael Hogan starred together in the CBC Television miniseries Vanderberg as Hank Vanderberg, a Calgary oil magnate, and his wife Elizabeth. In 1991, Hogan appeared in Cynthia Grant and Svetlana Zylin's Djuna: What of the Night with Company of Sirens in Toronto, Ontario. In 1985, although Gabrielle Lazure physically portrayed the role of Pauline Shapiro in Joshua Then and Now, Hogan overdubbed her voice due to Lazure's lingering Québécois accent. In the same year, she began appearing as Nicole in the drama series Night Heat. Other roles around this time included Rolling Vengeance, the television film Easy Prey and a guest appearance in Street Legal, while her stage roles included a First Nations spirit in Linda Griffiths's Jessica, Marjorie in a production of William Mastrosimone's Extremities, and as Matilda, opposite her husband as Zastrozzi, in George F. Walker's Zastrozzi, The Master of Discipline. However, two weeks into the run of Extremities, she was forced to withdraw from the role after suffering whiplash during the play's opening rape scene, and was replaced by Arlene Mazerolle for the remainder of the show's run. In 1988, she was a guest co-host of CTV's talk show Lifetime for a week during regular host Liz Grogan's pregnancy leave. Other guest hosts included Maureen McTeer, Dinah Christie and Jayne Eastwood. In 1989, Hogan appeared in a production of Byron Ayanoglu's Anarchy, was cast in the film Narrow Margin, and filmed an episode of Danger Bay which was planned as a potential backdoor pilot for a new series that would star Hogan as a television journalist and single mother. The series was not picked up. In 1991, Hogan appeared in her most noted film role, as Marlene in Bordertown Café. In 1993 and 1994, she appeared in the television soap opera Family Passions. In 1995, she played Regan in a partially gender-reversed production of King Lear, in which Janet Wright played the lead role.

Susan and Michael Hogan have three children, all of whom are actors; Jennie Rebecca Hogan (born in 1971), Gabriel Hogan (born in 1973) and Charlie Hogan (born in 1983).

Susan Hogan television credits • Year — Title — Role — Notes — Ref. Reference(s) • 1979 — An American Christmas Carol — Helen Brewster — TV movie • 1981, 1985 — The Littlest Hobo — Reporter / Meg Farrell — 3 episodes • 1983 — Vanderberg — Elizabeth Vanderberg — TV miniseries • 1985 — Oakmount High — Carol Webber — Television film • 1985–1987 — The Little Vampire — Helga Besker — 7 episodes • 1985–1989 — Night Heat — Nicole "Nickie" Rimbaud — 95 episodes • 1986 — Easy Prey — Carol Risico — TV movie • 1987 — Street Legal — Ruby — 1 episode • 1989 — Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Joyce Martin — 1 episode • 1990 — Danger Bay — Allison Walker — 1 episode • 1990, 1992 — Counterstrike — Bridgette — Episodes: "A Little Purity" (S1.E6) & "Bosnian Connection" (S3.E12) • 1993 — Liar, Liar: Between Father and Daughter — Helen Browne — TV movie • 1993 — Kung Fu: The Legend Continues — Nurse Beaman — 1 episode • 1993–1994 — Family Passions — Libby McDeere • 1994 — Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad — TV movie • 1994 — Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story — Dr Sandra Baldwin — TV movie • 1995 — No Greater Love — Kate Winfield — TV movie • 1995 — Visitors of the Night — Dr Dillard — TV movie • 1995 — Ebbie — Mrs Dobson — TV movie • 1996 — Closer and Closer — TV movie • 1996 — Golden Will: The Silken Laumann Story — Marilyn Copeland — TV movie • 1996 — In Cold Blood — Marie Dewey — TV miniseries • 1996, 1998 — The Outer Limits — Phoebe Collins / Dr. Marissa Golding / Krenn — 3 episodes • 1997 — When Danger Follows You Home — Alicia — TV movie • 1998 — Dead Man's Gun — Sister Katherine — Episode: "Sisters of Mercy" • 1999 — Millennium — Una Saxum — 1 episode • 2000 — A Father's Choice — Gayle Miller — TV movie • 2000 — Take Me Home: The John Denver Story — Irma — TV movie • 2000 — Quarantine — Maddy Kempbers — TV movie • 2001 — Mysterious Ways — Carol — 1 episode • 2004-2006 — The L Word — Sharon Fairbanks — 6 episodes • 2005 — Saving Milly — Senator Bates — TV movie • 2005 — Hush — Florence — TV movie • 2005 — Amber Frey: Witness for the Prosecution — Sharon Rocha — TV movie • 2006 — Murder on Pleasant Drive — Fran Smith — TV movie • 2007 — Cleaverville — Maggie Quinn — TV movie • 2007 — Crossroads: A Story of Forgiveness — Principal Warren — TV movie • 2007 — It Was One of Us — Mrs. Monroe — TV movie • 2007 — Men in Trees — Donna Harrington — 1 episode • 2007–2009 — Battlestar Galactica — Captain Doyle Franks — 3 episodes • 2008 — Whispers and Lies — Dr. Faye Croft — TV movie • 2010 — Lies Between Friends — Rebecca Read — TV movie • 2010–2011 — Life Unexpected — Ellen Bazile — 3 episodes • 2011 — Three Weeks, Three Kids — Kathryn Mills — TV movie • 2011 — Gone — Louise Turner — TV movie • 2011 — Heartland — Grace Morris — 1 episode • 2011 — The Pastor's Wife — Dr. Lynn Zager — TV movie • 2012 — A Very Merry Mix-Up — Penny — TV movie • 2012 — It's Christmas, Carol! — |Linda Huffler — TV movie • 2014 — The Color of Rain — Michael's Mother Jill — TV movie • 2014 — The Christmas Secret — Judy — TV movie • 2016 — Hailey Dean Mystery: Murder, with Love — Elizabeth Dean — TV movie • 2016 — The Wedding March — Nora Winters — TV movie • 2016 — Christmas List — Cathy — TV movie • 2017 — Garage Sale Mystery: The Art of Murder — Elizabeth Mellon — TV movie • 2017 — Hailey Dean Mystery: Dating is Murder — Elizabeth Dean — TV movie • 2018 — Frozen in Love — Kate Campbell — TV movie • 2018 — Wedding March 3: Here Comes the Bride — Nora Winters — TV movie • 2018 — Christmas Joy — Shirley Andrews — TV movie • 2018 — A Twist of Christmas — Abby's Mother — TV movie • 2018 — Welcome to Christmas — Nell — TV movie • 2018 — Time for Me to Come Home for Christmas — Mae — TV movie • 2018–2019 — DC's Legend of Tomorrow — Dorothy Heywood — 4 episodes • 2019 — My One & Only — Ruth Fletcher — TV movie • 2021 — Sealed with a Kiss: Wedding March 6 — Nora — TV movie • 2021 — Supergirl — Miss Hochschild — 1 episode • 2022 — Harmony from the Heart — May Anne Carver — TV movie