Susan Richardson

Susan Richardson (born 11 March 1952) is an American actress.

She was a panelist in two incarnations of Match Game:
 * Match Game (1973)
 * Match Game PM

Early Life
Born in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, Richardson first started acting in plays in high school. She graduated from Coatesville Area Senior High School in 1969, and moved to Hollywood in 1971.

Career
Initially, Richardson played bit roles in feature films American Graffiti and A Star Is Born, and she guest-starred in the television series Happy Days and The Streets of San Francisco. Shortly before her 25th birthday, about six years after moving to the West Coast, Richardson was picked to play the fourth-oldest child in the Bradford family in Eight Is Enough.

In her Eight Is Enough heyday, Richardson appeared in two installments of Battle of the Network Stars (May 1979 and December 1980), as well as numerous appearances in The $20,000 Pyramid and Password Plus, in addition to a one-hour All-Star episode of Family Feud in 1978 and a three-episode celebrity tournament in the daytime version in May 1979.

Personal Life
On 15 March 1978, Richardson married Michael Virden and shortly thereafter became pregnant, which was written into Eight Is Enough. She gave birth to their daughter Sarah on 27 February 1980. After her pregnancy, a rumor was spread that Richardson would lose her job if she did not shed her pregnancy weight; she had gained 90 lb (41 kg). Finding it very difficult to slim down by normal means, she started using cocaine. After Eight Is Enough, Richardson suffered a debilitating tailbone injury after doing a concert.

In January 2013, The Huffington Post published a report from a National Enquirer interview with Richardson. She reported she had experienced extremely hard times, living in an unheated trailer with a rotting floor in Wagontown, Pennsylvania, not far from her hometown of Coatesville. Richardson said she had developed diabetes, suffered three mini-strokes, had lost 60 lb (27 kg), and lost her teeth as the result of a digestive condition.