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Susanne Zenor

American actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ7648807
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Susanne Zenor (born November 26, 1946) is an American retired actress best known for the role of "Margo Anderman Horton" on Days of Our Lives.

Early life

Sue Zan Zenor was born in Louisville, Kentucky on November 26, 1946. She was initiated in the Alpha Kappa chapter of Kappa Kappa Kappa, in Jeffersonville in 1964.

Career

Zenor started her acting career at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. She appeared in the movie The Moonshine War (1970) in which she portrayed Miley Mitchell. Zenor appeared in the Woody Allen movie Play It Again, Sam (1972) in which her name was listed as Suzanne Zenor. She played Alba Wadsworth in The Baby (1973) and was credited as Suzanne Zenor. She also appeared as one of Stockard Channing's victims on TV in Joan Rivers' dark comedy The Girl Most Likely To... (1973), which co-starred Edward Asner.

Zenor made many television guest appearances during the 1970s, in shows such as McMillan & Wife, Love, American Style, M*A*S*H, The Six Million Dollar Man, and Barnaby Jones.

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“Susanne Zenor” enters the record as american actress. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Susanne, Zenor and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1946, 1964, 1970, 1972—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1947-11-26. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Susanne, Zenor and American.
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“Susanne Zenor” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Susanne, Zenor and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7648807. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1946, 1964, 1970 and 1972.

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This entry incorporates text from Susanne Zenor” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.