Joanne Linville
Joanne Linville (born January 15, 1928 in Bakersfield, California) is a retired American film and television actress. Linville and actress Irene Gilbert co-founded the Stella Adler Academy in Los Angeles in 1985.
Biography
Early life
Beverly Joanne Linville was born in Bakersfield, California on January 15, 1928.
Acting career
Linville's motion picture credits include The Goddess (1958), Scorpio (1973), Gable and Lombard (1976), A Star Is Born (1976) and The Seduction (1982).
In 1959, Linville appeared on the long running CBS daytime drama The Guiding Light as Amy Sinclair, a run away drug addict whose daughter was nearly taken from her as part of an illegal adoption scam ring. Linville starred in two television presentations of One Step Beyond— as "Aunt Mina" in the episode "The Dead Part of the House" (1959), and as "Karen Wadsworth" in the episode "A Moment of Hate" (1960). In 1961, she starred in the Twilight Zone episode "The Passersby". In 1968, she played the Romulan Commander in the Star Trek episode "The Enterprise Incident".