Biographie

In 1999, Parrish created a 240-acre wildlife sanctuary on Orcas Island (in the San Juan Islands, Washington State) to save it from normal development techniques, including logging. She named it the "Spring Hill Wildlife Sanctuary".

She wore a very revealing dress in the Star Trek episode 'Who Mourns for Adonais', S2 E2. She again wears the exact same dress in Mannix, 'The Girl in the Frame' S1 E24.

Parrish was a talented and promising piano and composition student by the age of 14 at the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music. Two years later, she earned money for her tuition by working as a maid and a waitress, and by teaching piano. By the age of 19, she worked as a model for the Conover Agency in New York City.

Under contract to MGM from 1956.

A political activist, she was a vocal opponent of the Vietnam War, a member of the Jeannette Rankin Brigade, a group of notable women who fought against the war and for civil rights.