Nancy Kovack

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Nancy Kovack (born March 11, 1935 in Flint , Michigan ) is an American film and stage actress and former model .

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Nancy Kovack was a student at the University of Michigan when she was 15 and left when she was 19. At the age of 20, she was able to claim 20 different beauty titles for herself.

Around 1955 Kovack moved to New York City , where she was able to gain first acting experience on Broadway , and from 1959 also took on film and television roles.

Her career focused mostly on television series. So she stood in front of the camera in classics such as Bewitching Jeannie , Solo for ONCEL , Raumschiff Enterprise or Hawaii Fünf-Null . Kovack's best-known film role is that of the high priestess Medea in Jason and the Argonauts from 1963. Although Kovack played mostly erotic scenes and often the femme fatale , she was a very moral woman in her private life who avoided herself in Hollywood in the 1960s and 1970s Plunge into the nightlife for years.

On July 19, 1969, she married the Indian conductor Zubin Mehta . In order to focus more on her private life, Kovack retired from acting in 1976. She lived in Germany for a few years when her husband became general music director at the Bavarian State Opera in 1998 .

Today Kovack is involved in charitable matters and is one of the prominent social advocates in New York and Los Angeles . She is friends with Sophia Loren .

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SURNAME Kovack, Nancy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film and theater actress and former photo model
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Flint , Michigan , United States