Susan Dalian
- Actress
- Director
- Writer
Susan Dalian was born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA as Susan Patterson Dalian. She is known for her role as the gun wielding, jilted bride, "Bebe" in the 2001 Sony Screen Gems film The Brothers opposite Shemar Moore with Morris Chestnut and Gabrielle Union. She studied acting at Baltimore School for the Arts, one of the top five performing arts high schools in the United States. She graduated and later went on to study at Boston University in their College of Fine Arts program earning a B.F.A in Acting. Her career started in San Francisco where she played roles acting in theater companies such as San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, CA Shakespeare Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Marin Theater Company and Shakespeare Santa Cruz. While living there she also acted in several national commercials and voice overs. Later she moved to Los Angeles to begin acting in television and film. She got a big break when cast as a series regular in a pilot produced by Stephen J. Cannell (Spider's Web). She has appeared in several roles in television shows and feature films as well as short films. Susan is also a voice over actor and has voiced for several television and radio commercials as well as voicing characters for anime and video games, including the voice of "Storm" in the 2009 Cartoon Network show Wolverine and the X-men and "Haku" in Naruto. She has acted onstage at theaters such as South Coast Repertory (with Pulitzer Prize winning playwrights Lynn Nottage and Tracy Letts with director William Friedkin), The Actors' Gang (directed by Tim Robbins), and Indiana Repertory Theater, to name a few. She is also a stage director having directed several plays with various theater companies, as well as having co-directed and wrote the short film Bite Me which screened at Mammoth Lakes Film Festival and Festival Angaelica in 2019.