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Suzanne Somers rose to stardom in the '70s with her portrayal of Chrissy Snow on the top-rated comedy " Three's Company". She later become an accomplished nightclub performer, a best-selling author, and a lecturer on behalf of children of alcoholics.
In addition to "Three's Company", she also starred as herself on the telefilm "Keeping Secrets", based on Somers's best-selling autobiography. She also appeared on the syndicated series "She's the Sheriff", the mini-series "Hollywood Wives", the cult telefilm "Zuma Beach", and the specials "A Star-Spangled Celebration".She has also hosted her own show "The Suzanne Somers Show" and "Suzanne Somers and 10,000 GI's" in 1991. Somers's film credits are "American Graffiti", "Yesterday's Heroes" and "Nothing Personal." In 1986, she was named "Las Vegas Entertainer of the Year." Somers has authored "Touch Me", a volume of poems now in its third printing, and of "Keeping Secrets" on which Somers narrates her life growing up with an alcoholic father. Her most recent work is " Wednesday's Children: Adult Survivor of Abuse Speak Out."
She has devoted a lot of energy in the Suzanne Somers Institute for the Effects of Addictions on the Family, for which she is founder and director. In 1991 she lecture before a U.S. Senate Committee on the subject. Since then she has lecture a lot through the U.S. She has been awarded Humanitarian Award from the National Counsil on Alcoholism, Mother of the Year Award, and the President's Award from the National Association of American Drug Counselors.
