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skulk — 22 years ago(March 23, 2004 05:22 PM)
This article is from Nov. 2002. She's since popped out another kid and Cameron continues to go on boat missions around the world. So I'm guessing she's holding down the fort.
From the Daily Oklahoman
Shy Oklahoma City girl Suzy Amis became a celebrated model, then a movie star and finally the wife of "the king of the world."
That's how James Cameron proclaimed his feelings when he won three Oscars for directing, producing and ed16d0iting the 1997 blockbuster "Titanic."
Tonight at 7, the queen brings her king back home for "The Captain's Gala," a splashy sneak-preview opening for "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibit" at Omniplex, featuring historic treasures retrieved from one of the most famous and tragic shipwrecks in maritime history.
"Frankly, I'm thrilled that he's coming with me to stand next to me and be my support, because I really get nervous having to do things like this," Amis laughed during a telephone interview from the Camerons' California home.
Cameron, interviewed by The Oklahoman during a Los Angeles press junket Sunday for his new film "Solaris," said, "She got invited to help open the exhibit, and she wanted to know if I would come with her.
"She has to tag along on my stuff. She said, 'Do you want to go on this?' And I said, 'Yeah, I'll go.' And then they found out I was going, and so now they've sort of drawn me into it.
"It's her gig because, you know, she was in the film, and she's from there, and it's a good connection."
Indeed, Amis, who played the modern-day granddaughter of a Titanic passenger in the film, met her future husband when she was called to interview for the part.
"We had a meeting for about an hour and 45 minutes and, yeah, we talked about the movie a little bit," Amis recalls. "But we talked about all kinds of other stuff that we both love skydiving, scuba diving, cars "
Is Amis adventurous?
"Well, I kind of am," she admits. "I kind of come from a family of mavericks that way."
The daughter of Dave and Susan Amis of Oklahoma City, she grew up with two sisters and three brothers, and she's the only female of the bunch who took to the air with her male siblings, taking flying lessons from her dad, who owns Downtown Airpark.
Amis' earliest ambition was to combine her piloting skills with her love of horses and become a flying veterinarian. During her junior year at Heritage Hills High School, the slender blonde took modeling lessons from Patty Harrison-Gers and started doing local fashion shows to help pay for
her passion English-style horseback riding.
"I really don't think I ever thought I could be a model," Amis says. "I was shorter than all of the models around and certainly rounder than anybody that I had ever seen in a magazine."
But when Harrison-Gers sent pictures of Amis to the Eileen Ford modeling agency in New York, Ford responded with an invitation, and Amis found herself spending a week in the Big Apple, accompanied by her mother.
Ford put her on the Merv Griffin Show as a "face of the '80s" with supermodel Jerry Hall among others. It was a painful experience for the bashful beauty.
"He asked me lots of questions," she remembers. "I don't think I said a word. I nodded a lot."
Her lack of boldness notwithstanding, Amis' exquisitely chiseled, patrician features made her an instant success. Before long, she was based in Paris, living on her own in an apartment with two other young models, continuing her high school education through correspondence while she traveled the world.
She returned home long enough to finish the last semester of her senior year at Heritage Hall in 1980, then headed back to Paris for another 31/2 years before finally moving to New York. It was during this period that Davien Littlefield, from the modeling agency's commercial division, persuaded Amis to audition for acting jobs.
Her first time out, she snagged a role in the Michael Caine film "Blame It on Rio."
"My first job fell in my lap, which I turned down because there was nudity involved," she says.
Another audition, this time for Steven Spielberg's company, landed her a role in "Fandango," a Kevin Reynolds- directed comedy-drama starring Kevin Costner and Sam Robards that was shot on location in Texas and Oklahoma and released in 1985.
"I only had one line in that movie," she says.
Still, she was noticed, not only by other filmmakers but by her co-star, Robards, who became her first husband and fathered her first child, Jasper.
She was determined from the start to be taken seriously as an actress.
"It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the 'Barbie doll' roles," she says.
So she studied with Marilyn Fried of the Actors Studio, gave a critically lauded performance in the stage play "Fresh Horses" and went on to appear in a succession of varied and sometimes challenging films including "The Big Town" (1987), "Rocket Gibraltar" (198 , "Watch It," "Rich in Love" and "The Ballad of Little Jo" (all 1993). The last featured her i -
AxeMarc — 20 years ago(February 22, 2006 02:35 PM)
A shorter answer than the above:
Now that she's married with one of the richest man in the business, she wont have to act again.
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ambersky — 19 years ago(May 31, 2006 06:12 AM)
It is a known fact that this woman went after James Cameron who was married and had a toddler at the time.
His wife at the time Linda Hamilton said it and he admitted it on one of interviews that he had an affair with Suzy Amis while he was still married.
She might not want to act and maybe she would rather be doing whatever she is doing now.
She was an attractive lady. I just hope that James Cameron doesn't do to her what he did to his former wife.
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beevee-1 — 19 years ago(June 04, 2006 11:43 AM)
Poor Linda. What goes around, comes around. She screwed around with James Cameron while married to her husband Bruce and then left him. Which in the long run was good, 'cuz Bruce was able to get shed of that screaming shrew.
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vande — 19 years ago(December 14, 2006 12:44 AM)
What are you talking about? I only asked where Suzy was, then I thanked the person for telling us. I haven't said anything negative, and I would wish her well in whatever she chooses to do.
My vote history:
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isotop235 — 17 years ago(September 27, 2008 08:22 AM)
Because she could never act?
Her best role was in "Fandango" where she was just so beautiful(no small feat)and electrified the screenbut I don't think she can act.
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