Barbara Feldon

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Biography

American actress, model and television personality

  • Primary profession
  • Actress·soundtrack
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Female
  • Birth date
  • 12 March 1933
  • Place of birth
  • Butler· Pennsylvania
  • Spouses
  • Burt Nodella
  • Education
  • Carnegie Mellon University

Music

Movies

TV

Books

Trivia

Won $64,000 dollars on "The $64,000 Question" . Category: Shakespeare.

When she started "Get Smart" , she was already famous, albeit anonymously, for lolling on a tiger skin rug as she purred the praises of Top Brass hair cream.

Graduated from Carnegie-Mellon in 1955.

Hosted a magazine-type syndicated TV show "Special Edition" .

Wrote a self-help book in 2003 called "Living Alone and Loving It"

She has a sister named Patricia.

She graduated from Bethel Park High School in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.

Likes minimalist interior decoration.

Was nearsighted as a young woman.

Does voiceovers for commercials today, and performed a one-woman show in the 90s.

Pop-art quad-portrait done in 1965 by Andy Warhol.

Feldons "Get Smart" character, Agent 99, was named "most stylish secret agent" at the 2004 TV Land Hall of Fame awards.

Long after "Get Smart" had ended its series run in 1970, she enjoyed a very successful TV commercial voice-over career, which lasted well into the 80s.

Best remembered by the public for her starring role as CONTROL agent 99 in "Get Smart" .

Says that she enjoys writing poetry, studying, and "living."

Though shes still the youngest cast member of "Get Smart" , most sources claimed she was born in 1941.

In 1968, during the original run of the series, she began a relationship with "Get Smart" producer, Burt Nodella. The relationship ended in 1979.

She studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.

(February 2005) New York City.

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