- Best known as Dr. Maggie Graham on the Ben Casey (1961), she met and married her "Ben Casey" co-star, actor Sam Jaffe, earlier in 1955 when they were both appearing on stage in a production of "Tartuffe". They married a year later. Despite their 33-year age difference the marriage lasted 28 years until his death of cancer in 1984 at age 93. They had no children.
- A prolific artist, she exhibited many of her works in both Beverly Hills and back in her home town area of Columbia, South Carolina.
- Graduated from Columbia College in South Carolina in 1945 before pursuing a career in New York City while doing graduate work at Columbia University.
- Born in Cottageville, South Carolina and grew up in Williston in Barnwell County in southwestern South Carolina, one of four children born to a school superintendent and his wife.
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