Nancy Kovack

An ancestor of Flint, Michigan, Nancy Kovack was a student at the University of Michigan at 15 and a radio DJ at 16, a college grad when she was 19 and the holder of 8 beauty contests by twenty. She started her professional acting career in New York as one of the Jackie Gleason's "Glea girls" and later, with more prominent roles, The Dave Garroway show (1953), Today (1952) and Beat the Clock(1950). An acting role on stage led to Hollywood the doors to Kovack as she enrolled to Columbia. She later racked up an impressive collection of television credits for episodic shows, and was Emmy-nominated for a guest-spot in 1969 on Mannix (1967). The wife of the world-renowned composer Zubin Mehta of New York Philharmonic fame, Kovack publicly alleges that she was recently swindled (to an amount of $150,000) by Susan McDougal, a central figure involved in the Whitewater scandal. In five appearances on the situation comedy Bewitched (1964) Three of her appearances portrayed Darrin Stephens' catty former love interest Sheila Summers. Her father worked as an executive for General Motors. Today, she lives with her partner Zubin Mehta in Los Angeles, California. In 1954, she received her degree from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor in Michigan. Most well-known to the general public because of her appearance in Star Trek's second season episode A Private Little War (1968), as the sexy native woman of the indigenous tribe Nona.