The American actress, famous for playing cheerleader Patty Simcox in the film “Grease”, has died at the age of 72.
American actress Susan Buckner, famous for playing cheerleader Patty Simcox alongside Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta in the film Grease, has died at the age of 72.
In a press release sent to the American media, her agent Melissa Berthier specifies that the actress died “peacefully” on May 2, “surrounded by her loved ones.”
“We will forever miss the light she brought into every room,” Susan Buckner’s daughter Samantha Mansfield told the magazine. People. “She was magical and I was lucky enough to call her my best friend.”
Beauty queen and television career
Born in Seattle in 1952, Susan Buckner began her career as a beauty queen. In 1971, she was crowned Miss Washington and earned a place among the last ten candidates still competing in the Miss Amercia competition in 1972.
Susan Buckner got her start in show business with the Golddiggers, an all-female singing and dancing group that she joined on the American television show The Dean Martin Show.
If she then played in numerous television programs such as The Brady Bunch Hour or When the Whistle Blows, it was in 1978 that the actress achieved cinema success thanks to the film Grease in which she played the character of Patty Simcox.
In addition to Grease, Susan Buckner also appeared in Wes Craven’s 1981 horror film Farmhouse alongside Sharon Stone, as well as in Police Academy 6 in 1989.
