Susan Diol

Susan Diol is an American actress who has built a career largely in television, with supporting parts in more than forty series. She began in children's theater in Illinois before moving to the screen, and her early credits include the 1986 television movie Popeye Doyle. She turned up in sitcom episodes of Night Court and Seinfeld and in science fiction shows such as Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager, where she was Doctor Danara Pel. On Quantum Leap she was Al Calavicci's first wife, Beth, a part she later reprised in the revival. Her stage work includes the Broadway production You Never Can Tell, and among her films is Loqueesha (2019). For a few months in the early 2000s she filled in as Alexis Davis on the soap opera General Hospital, and she came back to that show in 2023 as Nurse Clara.