Susan Kohner is an American actress, who worked in film and television. She is best known for her role as Sarah Jane in Imitation of Life (1959), for which she was nominated for an Oscar and won two Golden Globe awards. She played an African-American woman (of mixed ancestry) who passed for white for a time in her life. After Kohner married in 1964, she retired from acting to devote time to her family. Her two sons are both film directors.