Heidi Swedberg
Born: 1966-03-03 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Heidi Swedberg (born March 3, 1966) is an American actress known for her role as Susan Ross, the fiancée of George Costanza on the television sitcom Seinfeld. Swedberg was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, the daughter of Kay, a high school English teacher and Jim Swedberg, a laser physicist. She was raised in New Mexico and attended Sandia High School in Albuquerque from 1980 to 1984. Following graduation she moved to Kentucky where she spent a year at the Actor's Theatre of Louisville, following which she acted in her first film role, Norman Jewison's 1989 In Country. She followed that with roles in 1990 movies Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael and Kindergarten Cop, and 1991 movies Too Much Sun and Jim Abrahams comedy spoof Hot Shots! During this time she also had guest roles in a number of popular television series, including Matlock, Thirtysomething, Quantum Leap, Brooklyn Bridge, Northern Exposure, Sisters, Roc and Touched By An Angel. The following year she took on the role of Susan Ross in 11 episodes of Seinfeld's fourth season, 17 episodes of the seventh season and one episode of the ninth (via flashback in the 'backward' episode). She made a guest appearance in Wizards of Waverly Place as Jennifer Majorheely. Swedberg was not in Seinfeld's fifth season in 1994 but acted regularly in parts on other television shows, including Empty Nest, Murder, She Wrote, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Grace Under Fire. Heidi Swedberg played in a supporting role as "Brandon's Mother" in the movie Galaxy Quest. Description above from the Wikipedia article Heidi Swedberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2007
- Wizards of Waverly Place as Miss Majorhealey
2005
- Bones as Alice Elliot
2004
2003
- Oliver Beene as Cynthia Vogel
- Moving Alan as Female Ranger
2002
- Without a Trace as Laura Worth
- Dragonfly as Surgical Nurse
2000
- Gilmore Girls as Debbie Fincher
- Strong Medicine as Celia Farber
- 75 Degrees in July as Kay Colburn
1999
- Roswell as Meredith Dupree
- Providence
- Galaxy Quest as Brandon's Mom
- Evolution's Child
1998
- Becker as Mrs. Whitford
- Dennis the Menace Strikes Again! as Alice Mitchell
1997
- Breast Men as Eileen
- The Ticket as Rita
1996
- Up Close & Personal as Sheila
- The Cold Equations as Board Member
1995
- If Not for You as Melanie McKee
- The Party Favor
1994
- ER as Robin Turner
- Touched by an Angel as Marty Dillard
- The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics as (segment "The Theatre")
- Father and Scout as Donna Paley
1993
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Rekelen
1991
- Hot Shots! as Mrs. 'Dead Meat' Thompson
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Too Much Sun as Sister Agnes
- Roc as Helen
- Sisters
1990
- Northern Exposure as Linda
- Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael as Andrea Stein
- Kindergarten Cop as Joshua's Mother
1989
- Seinfeld as Susan Ross
- Quantum Leap as Valerie Nevsky
- In Country as Dawn
1987
1986
- Matlock as Sister Katherine
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Lorna Thompson