Nancy Kovack

Nancy Kovack is a retired film and television actress.

Kovack became interested in acting when after visiting New York City to attend a wedding. After working as a model, she became one of the Glee Girls for Jackie Gleason.

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Nancy Kovack is a retired film and television actress.

Kovack became interested in acting when after visiting New York City to attend a wedding. After working as a model, she became one of the Glee Girls for Jackie Gleason.

She has appeared on a number of television series including Star Trek, Bewitched (playing Darrin Stephens' ex-girlfriend and Samantha's nemesis, Sheila Sommers), Batman (episodes 5 and 6), I Dream of Jeannie, Get Smart, Perry Mason, 12 O'Clock High, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Invaders (episode "Task Force" (1967)), Burke's Law, Family Affair (episode "Family Plan" (1968)), and Hawaii Five-O (episode "Face of the Dragon" (1969)). She appeared in a key role as a sexy native medicine woman and femme fatale in one of the most sobering of the original Star Trek episodes, "A Private Little War" (1968). In 1969, she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for an appearance on Mannix.

In addition to her guest appearances on television programs, Kovack was hostess of the game show Beat the Clock.

As her profile increased, Kovack began to gain roles in Hollywood movies, most notably as the high priestess Medea in Jason and the Argonauts (1963). She also had roles in Diary of a Madman (1963) with Vincent Price, The Outlaws Is Coming (1965) with The Three Stooges, Sylvia (1965), The Great Sioux Massacre (1965), The Silencers (1966) with Dean Martin, Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966) with Mike Henry, Frankie and Johnny (1966) with Elvis Presley, and Carl Reiner's directorial debut Enter Laughing (1967).

On Broadway, she appeared in The Disenchanted. Her last film role was in Marooned (1969), a science-fiction drama. Credited as Nancy Mehta, she played the murder victim in the made-for-TV movie/series pilot Ellery Queen (also known as Too Many Suspects; 1975).

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