She won the Bronze Wrangler award from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in 1966 for her acting in the episode titled "The Horse Fighter" with the following cast and crew:
Randy Boone, Lee J. Cobb, James Drury, Harry Guardino, Clu Gulager and Doug McClure (actors). Norman MacDonnell and James Duff McAdams (producers). Richard Fielder (writer) and Anton Leader (director).
She won the Bronze Wrangler award from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in 1966 for her acting in the episode titled "The Horse Fighter" with the following cast and crew:
She attended a third Virginian 50th anniversary celebration with James Drury, Gary Clarke, L.Q. Jones, Roberta Shore, Randy Boone, Clu Gulager, Sara Lane and Don Quine in Los Angeles, CA at the Autry National Center and Museum on September 22, 2012. On this same date, The Virginian began a three-year agreement to run on the Inspiration Network cable channel.
Cozi TV the NBCUniversal classic television digital specialty network began airing episodes in 2013. MeTV airs episodes in selected viewing areas. She appeared as a guest star at the Roy Rogers Festival in Portsmouth, OH on July 31, 2013 with fellow Virginian cast member Don Quine and Actress & singer Lainie Kazan.
She attended as guest star, the Cowboy Up for Vets Horse Show with fellow Virginian cast members Drury, Shore, Clarke, Boone, Gulager, Lane and Quine. The show was held on March 28, 2014 in Swanton, OH. She took part in a special celebration of James Drury's 80th birthday at the show.
She attended as guest star, the largest cast reunion of The Virginian assembled at the Cowboy Up for Vets Horse Show held on April 22-24, 2016 in Swanton, OH. Other cast members who attended were James Drury, Roberta Shore, Gary Clarke, L.Q. Jones, Randy Boone, Clu Gulager, Sara Lane, Don Quine and Joe Cannon.
Her native language is French. Her family, Holocaust survivors of Jewish descent, immigrated from post war Europe to the United States. She learned English as a child. Her family is closely associated with theater and acting, so they settled in California close to Hollywood. Her family founded the Santa Monica Playhouse in the early 60’s. She sharpened her innate talent in acting with the Stanislavsky Method as a youth. Her first appearance on television was at age 10 on the General Electric Theater in 1959. She appeared with Charles Laughton. She later appeared on the Dick Powell Show in 1962. She appeared on this show with her brother, Robert. Her first stage performance was in william Saroyan's "My Heart's in The Highlands" at age 10. She won critical acclaim for her performance at The Student in Eugène Ionesco’s The Lesson at age 14. From the early 60’s until her casting on the Virginian in 1965, she worked tirelessly to improve her acting skills through the theater.
