Paul Newman’s Daughter Susan Dead at 72

Susan Newman — daughter of legendary actor Paul Newman — has died … in line with a web-based obituary.

Newman handed away again in August — although the obituary was solely posted on-line earlier this week — from “complications from chronic health conditions.”

Susan was born to Newman and Jackie Witte in 1953, the second of three youngsters the couple had.

She initially pursued a profession in leisure … showing in productions each on and off-Broadway throughout the early Seventies earlier than she grabbed a starring function within the Robert Zemeckis comedy “I Wanna Hold Your Hand,” which additionally featured Nancy Allen.

Susan finally determined to go away the stage and display behind to turn out to be a tv producer … she gained a Golden Globe for the ABC Theatre presentation of Michael Cristofer‘s “The Shadow Box.”

This job was simply one other cease on the highway to discovering her true calling — philanthropy. She kicked off her profession with the Scott Newman Foundation, an org arrange in honor of her brother who died of a drug overdose in 1978. She served as the muse’s govt director, and her work with the muse centered on drug abuse prevention, and she or he even testified earlier than Congress about medication.

Other causes near her coronary heart included household literacy initiatives — which she helped fund by means of the manufacturing of a Grammy-nominated audiobook collection of traditional literature — juvenile justice and most cancers analysis.

Susan Kendall Newman was 72.