Nancy Kovack

Nancy Kovack
Nancy Kovack
Birth name	Nancy Kovack
Born	March 11, 1935 (age 72) Michigan, United States
Spouse(s)	Zubin Mehta
Notable roles	Medea in Jason and the Argonauts

Nancy Kovack (b. March 11, 1935, Flint, Michigan) is an American actress.

She attended the University of Michigan at age 15 and graduated by 19. At the age of 20 she had won eight beauty titles.

She became interested in acting when she went to New York City to attend a wedding and became one of the Glea Girls for Jackie Gleason. She has appeared on a number of TV episodes, including Star Trek, Bewitched, Batman, Perry Mason, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and Burke's Law. In 1969 she was nominated for an Emmy for an appearance on Mannix.

On Broadway she appeared in The Disenchanted.

As she gained fame, she began to win roles in Hollywood movies, most notably as the high priestess Medea in Jason and the Argonauts (1963). She also had parts in Strangers When We Met (1960), Diary of a Madman (1963) with Vincent Price, The Outlaws Is Coming (1965) with The Three Stooges, Sylvia (1965), Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966), and Frankie and Johnny (1966).

Her last film role was in Marooned (1969), a science fiction drama. She did, however, appear in the TV series Ellery Queen (1975) as "Monica Gray", and was credited as Nancy Mehta.

In 1969 Nancy married Zubin Mehta, a conductor and later music director for the New York Philharmonic. Thereafter she dedicated herself to her marriage, and in 1998 the couple moved to Germany, when Zubin Mehta was named Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera.

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