Nancy Kovack
- Actress
A native of Flint, Michigan, Nancy Kovack was a student at the
University of Michigan at 15, a radio deejay at 16, a college graduate
at 19 and the holder of eight beauty titles by 20. Her professional
acting career began on television in New York, first as one of
Jackie Gleason's "Glea Girls" and
then, more prominently, on
The Dave Garroway Show (1953),
Today (1952) and
Beat the Clock (1950). A stage
role opened Hollywood doors for Kovack, who signed with Columbia. She
later racked up an impressive list of episodic television credits, and
was Emmy-nominated for a 1969 guest shot on
Mannix (1967). The wife of
world-renowned maestro Zubin Mehta of New
York Philharmonic fame, Kovack publicly alleges that she was recently
bamboozled (to the tune of $150,000) by
Susan McDougal, a central figure in the
Whitewater scandal.
