Nancy Kovack

Nancy Kovack is a Michigan native who was born in Flint. She completed her college education at the age of 19 with a record of 8 awards, before beginning her career as a television actress at age 15. She started her professional acting career in New York as one of the Jackie Gleason's "Glea girls" then, following that with increasing recognition, The Dave Garroway show (1953), Today (1952) and Beat the Clock(1950). Kovack's Hollywood professional career started by performing in a stage production. She was signed on to Columbia after completing the project. Later, she racked up an impressive collection of television credits for episodic shows and won an Emmy for a 1969 guest shot in Mannix (1967). The wife of the world-renowned composer Zubin Mehta of New York Philharmonic fame, Kovack publicly alleges that she was, in recent times, manipulated (to the tune around $150,000) in the name of Susan McDougal, a central figure in the Whitewater scandal. In five appearances on the satirical show Bewitched (1964), three of her appearances portrayed Darrin Stephens' ex-catty love interest Sheila Summers. Her father worked as a General Motors executive. The couple lives in Los Angeles with her husband Zubin Mehta. Graduated from and attended The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan (1954). People remember her most for the role of beautiful Native Indian medicine woman Nona In Star Trek: Second Season Episode A Private Little War (1998).