Susan McNabb (born 6 August 1959; age 65) is an actress and model turned author who appeared as a background actress in three second season episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She first portrayed an arguing Dosi in the episode "Rules of Acquisition" and later a Bajoran security deputy in the episode "Tribunal" and another episode. As a background actress she received no credit for these appearances. [1]
Born and raised in Asheville, North Caroline, McNabb earned her BA in English Literature from the University of Tennessee. In the early 1980s she moved to Hollywood where she worked as actress, runway and print model, and stand-in in film, television, commercials, and print-ads. She taught acting at Beverly Hills Studios for seven years.
For seventeen years, she worked as road manager, stand-in and photo double for Cassandra Peterson's "Elvira" on several live shows, film and television projects such as Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988, with John Paragon, Frank Collison, Jeff Conaway, W. Morgan Sheppard, and Eve Smith) and the short television series Midnight Madness (1990). In 2018, McNabb was interviewed for the documentary Too Macabre: The Making of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark along with John Paragon, Steve LaPorte, and W. Morgan Sheppard.
As an actress, she can be seen in several music videos including Kidd Video's "A Little TLC" (1984), Steve Wariner's The Weekend (1987), House of Lords' "I Wanna Be Loved" (1988), Boz Scaggs' "Cool Running" (1988), and Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire (1989). She also appeared as a Centauri in an episode of Babylon 5 [2], as a reporter in Godzilla (1998, with Lloyd Kino, Clyde Kusatsu, Glenn Morshower, Derek Webster, Jamison Yang, Nathan Anderson, James Black, Tom Gianelli, Stoney Westmoreland, Frank Welker, Eugenie Bondurant, Guy Richardson, Kevin Grevioux, Patricia Tallman, John Austin, Jack Nolan, Norman Fessler, Lou Simon, and George Cambio), and as a convention goer in Galaxy Quest (1999, starring Alan Rickman, with Rainn Wilson, Missi Pyle, Robin Sachs, Wayne Péré, Matt Winston, Heidi Swedberg, Larry Richards, Joel McKinnon Miller, Jack Nolan, Linda Harcharic, Spice Williams, Tanner Gill, and stand-ins Guy Richardson, Lee Faranda, and Darius Montgomery).
According to Jerry Seinfeld, the character Elaine Benes – portrayed by Julia Louis-Dreyfus – on Seinfeld partially based on McNabb who dated Seinfeld during the pre-production of the show.
In 2011 McNabb and her husband moved back to North Carolina. Under her artistic name Suki McMinn, she published several novels including Drop Dead Gorgeous, The Vampire of Waller County, Christmas in Waller County, Smitten with Kittens in the Desert, and The Iris. She also wrote a weekly newspaper column for the Tryon Daily Bulletin Between 2014 and 2015. In 2015 McNabb and her husband moved to Phoenix, Arizona.
External links[]
- SusanMcNabb.com – official site
- Susan McNabb at Facebook
- Susan McNabb at Instagram
- Susan McNabb at X (formerly Twitter)
- Susan McNabb at the Internet Movie Database