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Susan Mayer
Teri Hatcher as Susan Mayer
First appearance	Pilot (episode 1.01)
Information
Gender	Female
Age	40 (2007)
Occupation	Children's book artist
Family	Sophie Bremmer Flickman (mother) Morty Flickman (step-father) Addison Prudy (biological father)
Relationships	Karl Mayer (ex-husband) Mike Delfino (ex-boyfriend) Ron McCready (ex-boyfriend) Ian Hainsworth (fiancee)
Children	Julie Mayer (daughter)
Portrayed by	Teri Hatcher
Created by	Marc Cherry

Susan Mayer (née Bremmer) is a fictional character on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. The character is played by Teri Hatcher and is one of the leading characters of the show.

Contents 1 History 2 Life Before Season 1 3 Season 1 4 Season 2 5 Season 3 6 Quotes 7 Trivia

“	It was common knowledge on Wisteria Lane that where Susan Mayer went, bad luck was sure to follow. Her misfortunes ranged from the commonplace, to the unusual, to the truly bizarre.	”
	— Mary Alice Young

Susan Bremmer grew up believing her father died at war. Her mother's erratic love life led to some distance between the two of them but she has always been very close to her daughter. She was valedictorian at high school and married Karl Mayer as she was still quite young. It turned out to be a mistake as he kept cheating on her until he finally got dicorced and left her for his secretary. Julie was then her only shoulder to cry on and their relationship has strenghtened ever since but both of them still have issues about being sometime in a role reversal with Julie playing the adult and Susan making many mistakes. Mary Alice Young also supported her which brought her to question how she could have commited suicide.

Susan sees new neighbor Mike Delfino as an opportunity to find a better life than the one she is living. Apparently clumsy by nature, Susan, at one point was locked outside of her own house completely naked and wet in broad daylight after ex-husband Karl drove off with her towel caught in the car door; she had to cover herself with a plant pot as she made a mad dash for the back door, only to fall into a bush and be discovered by Mike, who managed to unlock her door. She also accidentally burnt Edie Britt's house down. Susan is naturally inquisitive and is perhaps the driving force behind the housewives' efforts to discover the truth about Mary Alice Young's suicide which hit her hard. She is particularly suspicious of Paul Young. She dislikes Zach Young and worries about the threat he poses to her daughter, describing him as "rampage crazy" (whilst admitting that she herself is "adorable crazy"). Susan is also a neighborhood gossip and busy-body as she hires a private investigator to uncover the dark secrets of the Youngs and Mike Delfino with whom she ends up in a relationship anyway.

She also has a long-running competitiveness with Edie which was one of the key plot point of season 2. She is dumped by Mike after he discovers she sent Zach, Mike's natural son, away. She also discovers that she is the result of her mother's one night stand with the owner of a feed store. When she attempts to make contact with him and tell him who she is, he has a heart attack but survives. She later meets her stepmother and dicovers her father to be a heavily cheating husband. Meanwhile her ex-husband tried to win her back by sabotaging all her relationships but dates Edie all the way. After she slept twice with her ex-husband Edie burns her house down as a revenge. This works as a trigger and she finally gets over Karl and is about to be asked in marriage by Mike Delfino when he suffers a hit and run by Orson Hodge and falls into a coma.

At the beginning of season 3, Susan claims that Mike can still wake up after 6 months of being in a coma as everyone says the opposite. In the hospital, Susan meets a man named Ian Hainsworth. She begins to go on dates him as Mike doesn't wake up. After they had sex, Mike Delfino wakes up out of his coma. He then rejects Susan because of all the lies Edie told him to get with him and she reunites with Ian, whom she had left after Mike woke up. Although she is obviously still in love with Mike, she has agreed not to see him anymore so that Ian would do anything to get him out of prison. She is also having trouble adjusting to her daughter being in a relationship with Austin McCann and she and Edie Britt soon catch him cheating on her with Danielle Van De Kamp. She slowly falls in love with Ian and he proposes to her. What she doesn't know is that Mike is in love with her as well but has lost her in a poker game against Ian.

• "I'm mad because I like you so much without really knowing anything about you."
• "This dress is riding up as it is. If I walk any faster, it's going to be happy Valentine's Day for everyone."
• "Edie'll get there at five forty-five, which means her breasts will arrive at five-thirty, so I should shoot for five."
• To Edie: "Oh, good! Then you'll be prime meat picking when you go to jail!!"
• To Edie: "Oh, you know what? It wasn't till your rotten nephew came to town that Julie was a perfect kid. And now she's lying and scheming and having casual sex! She's just a boob job away from being you!" (Refering to Julie)

• Susan was originally planned to be named 'Susan Meyer' (stated in the book, "Behind Closed Doors").
• Both Courteney Cox and Heather Locklear turned down the role, Cox because she was pregnant (but she was Marc Cherry's first choice for the role) and Locklear because she was starring in LAX. Michelle Rodriguez, Calista Flockhart and Mary-Louise Parker were also considered before the part went to Teri Hatcher.

Desperate Housewives
Episode list | Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4 | ABC official site
Production	Marc Cherry | Characters | Actors | Awards | Broadcasting | DVD releases | Music | The Game
Main characters	Susan Mayer | Lynette Scavo | Bree Hodge | Gabrielle Solis | Edie Britt | Mary Alice Young Carlos Solis | Tom Scavo | Julie Mayer | Orson Hodge | Mike Delfino Andrew Van De Kamp | Danielle Van De Kamp | Preston and Porter Scavo | Parker Scavo | Ian Hainsworth
Former main characters	Betty Applewhite | Rex Van De Kamp | Paul Young | John Rowland | Zach Young | Karl Mayer Matthew Applewhite | Austin McCann | Caleb Applewhite | George Williams
Minor characters	Carolyn Bigsby | Sophie Flickman | Maisy Gibbons | Ida Greenberg | Alma Hodge | Gloria Hodge Martha Huber | Kayla Huntington | Nora Huntington | Justin | Victor Lang | Karen McCluskey Travers McLain | Detective Ridley | Art Shephard | Noah Taylor | Felicia Tilman | Xiao-Mei
Locations	Wisteria Lane
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