Susan Pourfar

Personal context

Summary

Susan Pourfar is an American actor whose stage work includes Tribes, Mary Jane, Mary Page Marlowe, and Women or Nothing, with screen roles in Scandal, House of Cards, and Manchester by the Sea. Her performances often center on family relationships, caregiving, and people navigating personal difficulty; she has also spoken about connecting her Iranian-American background with the Armenian-American story in Meet the Cartozians. No public statements on identity politics, DEI, or political activism are on record. She is married to writer and educator Brian Jones.