Elaine Giftos
- Actress
After a youthful career in the New York City Ballet under the guidance
of the famed dance-master George Balanchine, Elaine Giftos starred on Broadway,
before moving to Hollywood to act in movies and on TV. She has
co-starred with Barbra Streisand and Jack Nicholson, with Woody Allen and Gene Wilder, and with
Burt Reynolds, among other major stars, in motion pictures. She has starred
in over fifty TV series, such as Emmy-winners Ally McBeal (1997), Magnum, P.I. (1980),
Murder, She Wrote (1984), Three's Company (1976), and the sci-fi cult hit War of the Worlds (1988), as well as starring
in many award-winning movies for television. She stars with Edward Asner and
Majel Barrett in the first original made-for-the-Net Science Fiction
cyberseries, Mars and Beyond (2000), on the Cyber Sci-Fi Network.