Trivia

Devoted many of her later years volunteering at Mother Teresa's hospice in Calcutta, India, traveling as often as twice a year and bringing medicine and supplies with her in order to care for the ill and needy.

Is the widow of Marilyn Monroe's press agent, Arthur P. Jacobs.

In the early 1960s, Natalie was named "Debutante of the Year", and the New York Post sent noted society reporter Doris Lilly to accompany her for five consecutive days to describe Natalie's life and activities.

The only actor other than Roddy McDowall to appear in four of the five films in the original "Planet of the Apes" saga. In fact it is in the four sequels of that series of films in which she appears, as the human mutant Albina in Le Secret de la planète des singes (1970), as human Doctor Stephanie "Stevie" Branton in Les Évadés de la planète des singes (1971), and as Lisa, Caesar's chimpanzee wife, in both La Conquête de la planète des singes (1972) and La Bataille de la planète des singes (1973), distinguishing her from McDowall as having performed in the movies as both human and simian characters (another such actor with that claim to fame being Norman Burton who was the ape leader of the hunt in the first film and a human army officer in "Escape").

Last name pronounced "Troon-dee".

Along with Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, Linda Harrison, Ricardo Montalban, John Randolph and Severn Darden, Trundy was one of only nine actors to play the same character in more than one film in the original "Planet of the Apes" series. She played Lisa in both La Conquête de la planète des singes (1972) and La Bataille de la planète des singes (1973).

Interviewed in Tom Weaver's book, "Eye on Science Fiction" (McFarland & Co., 2003).