Swoosie Kurtz

She is neither married, nor does she have any children.

Swoosie is a registered Democrat.

This classy and elegant beauty was born on September 6, 1944, in Omaha, Nebraska, US, to Air Force Colonel Frank Allen Kurtz, Jr. and author Margaret "Margo" (née Rogers). She was their only child.

Her father was an American ‘Olympic’ diver and served the ‘United States Army Air Forces’ as an aviator. He was a highly decorated Second World War American bomber pilot who derived his only daughter’s name "Swoosie" from the two B-17s he piloted with the 19th and the 463rd Bomb Groups, namely, ‘The Swoose‘ and ’Swoose II.’

Swoosie had to move frequently due to her father’s military service. She studied at the ‘University of Southern California,’ where she majored in drama, and thereafter, studied at the ‘London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.’

She made her debut on TV in 1962, featuring in an episode of the popular ‘ABC’ sitcom ‘The Donna Reed Show,’ titled ‘The Golden Trap.’ The episode was aired in the fourth season of the series, in February that year.

At age eighteen, she took part in the American television panel game show ‘To Tell the Truth,’ where she succeeded to spot her father among two imposters.

She played Ann in the play ‘The Firebugs,’ at the ‘Martinique Theatre,’ on July 1, 1968, and July 7, 1968.

The 1975 revival of ‘Ah, Wilderness!’ marked her ‘Broadway’ debut. The play, a famous comedy by American playwright Eugene O'Neill, featured her as Muriel McComber. It was staged at the ‘Circle in the Square Theatre’ from September 18, 1975, to November 23, 1975.

She garnered widespread attention playing Rita Altabel in the first play of noted American playwright Wendy Wasserstein, titled ‘Uncommon Women and Others.’ Following a feature in a 1977 workshop at the ‘Eugene O'Neill Theater Center,’ Swoosie went on to feature in its ‘Off-Broadway’ production. The play was staged at the ‘Marymount Manhattan Theatre,’ New York, from November 17, 1977, to December 4, 1977.