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She attended the university of michigan at age 15 and graduated by 19. at the age of 20 she had
won eight beauty titles.
hshe became interested in acting
when she went to new york to attend a wedding and wound up as
one of the glea girls for jackie gleason. she has appeared on a
number of tv episodes, including star trek, bewitched, batman,
perry mason, the man from u.n.c.l.e., and burke's law. in 1969
she was nominated for an emmy for an appearance on mannix. on broadway she appeared in the
disenchanted.
As she gained notability, she
began to win roles in hollywood movies, most notably as high
priestess medea in jason and the argonauts (1962). she also had
parts in strangers when we met (1960), diary of a madman (1963)
with vincent price, the outlaws is coming (1965) with the three
stooges, sylvia (1965), tarzan and the valley of gold (1966),
and
frankie and johnny (1966)
in 1969 nancy was married to
zubin mehta, a conductor and later music director for the new
york philharmonic orchestra. thereafter she dedicated herself to
her marriage, and her last film role was in marooned (1969), a
science fiction drama. she did, however, appear in the tv series
ellery queen (1975) as monica gray, and was credited as nancy
mehta.
In 1998 the couple moved to germany
where zubin mehta became the music director of the
bavarian state opera.
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