In her Eight Is Enough heyday, Richardson appeared in two installments of Battle of the Network Stars (May 1979 and December 1980), as well as numerous appearances on The $20,000 Pyramid, Password Plus, and Match Game, in addition to a one-hour All-Star episode of Family Feud in 1978 and a three-episode celebrity tournament on the daytime version in May 1979. Shortly before her 25th birthday, about six years after moving to the West Coast, Richardson was picked to play the fourth-oldest child in the Bradford family on Eight is Enough. Initially, Richardson played bit roles in feature films American Graffiti (1973) and A Star Is Born (1976), and she guest-starred on the television series Happy Days and The Streets of San Francisco. She graduated from Coatesville Area Senior High School in Coatesville, Pennsylvania in 1969, and moved to Hollywood in 1971.
( December 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)īorn in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, Richardson first started acting in plays in high school. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Susan lives on a Pembrokeshire cliff with choughs, ravens, and the enchanting Atlantic grey seals who feature in her latest book as her nearest neighbours.This section does not cite any sources. In addition to her ongoing writing residency with the British Animal Studies Network, facilitated by the University of Strathclyde, she has shared her work on BBC Two and Radio 3, enjoyed a four-year stint as one of the resident poets on Radio 4’s Saturday Live and performed at festivals both nationally and internationally. Her most recent collection, 'Words the Turtle Taught Me', themed around endangered ocean species, emerged from her residency with the Marine Conservation Society and was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award. She has since had the pleasure of writing ‘Where the Seals Sing’, a work of narrative non-fiction blending natural history and travel, memoir and myth, which has just been published, as well as four collections of poetry. At the age of six, when asked the usual question about what she wanted to be when she grew up, Susan Richardson replied, ‘I want to travel round the world and write about animals.’
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