Biography
After a handful of television appearances and numerous stage roles, actress Susannah Flood made her debut as a series regular on the Shonda Rhimes-produced legal drama "For the People" (ABC, 2018- ). Born in New York City, Flood was raised in Santa Monica, California and graduated summa cum laude with a degree in English from the University of California at Berkeley. From there, she pursued her master's degree in acting at the Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company Consortium, where she earned critical praise for her performances in productions of both classical works and world premieres of new dramas. From there, Flood worked in regional theater across the United States, including multiple productions at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and New York Theatre Workshop; she also made her screen acting debut as a game designer harassed by online stalkers on a 2015 episode of "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" (NBC, 1999- ), and followed this with a three-episodic arc on "Chicago Fire" (NBC, 2012- ). The following year, Flood made her Broadway debut opposite Diane Lane, Joel Grey and Harold Perrineau in a production of "The Cherry Orchard," and lent her voice to the popular drama podcast "The Orbiting Human Circus of the Air" (2016- ), part of the "Night Vale Presents" series of radio/podcast productions. In 2018, Flood was cast as Kate Littlejohn, a newly minted prosecutor working in the Southern District of New York's Federal Court on "For the People," a legal drama produced by Shonda Rhimes for her Shondaland shingle.
