Biografia

1 de julho de 1940 · Chicago, Illinois, EUA

1,88 m

Made countless uncredited appearances on The Carol Burnett Show (1967). For most of that series' run, she was the go-to girl whenever a sex object was needed for ugly-duckling Carol to unfavorably compare herself to.

Half-Swedish (from father's side) and half-Polish (from mother's side).

Based on her dazzling proportions and Amazonian height (6'2" in stocking feet), she was often employed as a living sight gag for ogling comics, ranging from Zero Mostel (in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum [1966]) to Barbra Streisand (in Funny Girl [1968]).

"My mother is only 5 feet tall, and my father-he's dead- was only 5 feet 7... When I ask my mother how I got so tall, she tells me that my father's mother was an even 6 feet. That's where I got the height from... In many ways it's been an asset and in many ways a liability. " (PARADE Magazine, July 11, 1971)

"I still hope that I can be cast in a weekly TV series just to show what I can do as an actress, but if it doesn't come along I won't have a nervous breakdown. I've learned to live with things. I guess it's my Scandinavian temperament, although I'm only half-Scandinavian. My father came from Sweden and my mother came from Poland." (PARADE Magazine, July 11, 1971)