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Susan Rossitto (15 December 195630 June 2013; age 56) was a stuntwoman and actress who played one of the two transwarp Humans, along with Cindy Sorensen, in the Star Trek: Voyager second season episode "Threshold". She received no credit for her work.

Rossitto started to work for the Screen Actor's Guild in the early 1980s and was featured in Under the Rainbow (1981, with Jim Boeke, Joe Gieb, Patty Maloney, Felix Silla, and Dennis Tracy), The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987, with John Cade), and Communion (1989, with Andreas Katsulas).

Beside her acting work, Rossitto worked as stand-in and stunt double for child actors. She was one of the penguins in Batman Returns (1992, with Vincent Schiavelli, Anna Katarina, Branscombe Richmond, Anthony De Longis, Diane Salinger, Biff Yeager, and stunts by Rick Avery, Jeff Cadiente, Joyce McNeal, Denney Pierce, Spiro Razatos, and Erik Stabenau), performed stunts in Phantasm II (1988, with June Jordan, Felix Silla, and Lynn Salvatori), and was one of the stunt doubles for Warwick Davis in Leprechaun (1993, with Ken Olandt, Mark Holton, Shay Duffin, and stunts by Denise Lynne Roberts).

As stand-in, Rossitto worked for Justin Cooper in Liar Liar (1997, with Anne Haney, Mitchell Ryan, Eric Pierpoint, Ben Lemon, Stephen James Carver, Don Keefer, Randy Oglesby, James W. Jansen, Ed Trotta, Ernest Perry, Jr., Amanda Carlin, Eric Sharp, Charles Emmett, Benjamin Brown, Mark Chaet, and stunts by Rosine "Ace" Hatem, Simone Boisseree, Robert Herron, Jeff Mosley, Spice Williams, and Gene LeBell) and for child actors in the television movie Annie (1999).

Further acting work includes episodes of Fantasy Island, Married with Children (1990, with Felix Silla), Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1997), Everybody Loves Raymond, and Fat Actress (2005, with Kirstie Alley, Rachael Harris, and Joe Gieb), the comedy The Independent (2000, with Fred Williamson, Larry A. Hankin, Billy Burke, Andy Dick, Sam Anderson, Michael Berryman, and stunt coordinated by Scott Leva), as the nurse in Eminem's music video "The Real Slim Shady" (2000), and the documentary The AMC Project: The Talent Collector (2004, with Joe Griffo, Roger Morrissey, and Cindy Sorensen).

Rossitto passed away peacefully at her home on 30 June 2013. Her memorial service was held on 20 July 2013 at St. Charles Borromeo in North Hollywood. Following that she was buried at Forest Lawn. The reception was held at the Toluca Lake Tennis Club. [1]

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