Background and career
Heidi Swedberg (born 1966 or 1967) is an American former actress, best known for playing Susan Ross, the fiancée of George Costanza, on the television sitcom Seinfeld. She has not performed as an actress since 2010, and has worked as a musician and educator.
Swedberg was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, graduating from Sandia High School in 1984.
After graduation, Swedberg moved to Kentucky, where she spent a year at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Her first film role was in Norman Jewison's In Country (1989). She then appeared in Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael and Kindergarten Cop (both 1990) and in Too Much Sun and the Jim Abrahams comedy spoof Hot Shots! (both 1991). She then took on the role of Susan Ross in the long-running TV comedy Seinfeld (11 episodes in season four, 16 episodes in season seven, and in a flashback in season nine's 'backward' episode). She acted in many other television shows both before and after her appearances on Seinfeld.
Swedberg's last acting credit was in 2010, after which she shifted her career toward music and education. She taught music at Saint Brendan Elementary School in the Los Angeles Hancock Park neighborhood. While living in Hawaii, Swedberg grew up playing the ukulele. In 1992, when playing a singer/songwriter for a television pilot, she began playing the instrument again. She plays it and sings in her band, Heidi Swedberg and The Sukey Jump Band, with whom she has released the albums PLAY! (2009) and My Cup of Tea (2013). Swedberg appears at ukulele festivals and nightclubs with her other band, the Smoking Jackets, with multi-instrumentalists Daniel Ward, Craig McClelland and John Bartlit. She regularly teaches music at the John C. Campbell Folk School.
Swedberg was married to Philip Holahan from 1994 until their divorce in 2019. Together they have two daughters.
Sources
Net-worth figure: Celebrity Net Worth (October 2026), in USD. Biography and career facts: the person's Wikipedia article and linked reporting. Snapshot date for all StarWorth figures: 28 October 2026.
