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Barbara Feldon (born Barbara Hall on March 12, 1932 in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania
Bethel Park, Pennsylvania

Bethel Park is a Devolution municipality in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States, and is part of the Pittsburgh Metro Area, approximately 8 miles southwest of Pittsburgh....
) is an American actress and model
Model (person)

A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who poses or who is displayed for the purpose of art, fashion, or other product s and advertising....
.

graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University is a top private university research university in Pittsburgh. Since its inception, Carnegie Mellon has grown into a world-renowned institution, with numerous programs that are frequently college and university rankings among the best in the world....
) in 1955 with a Bachelor of Arts in drama, shortly after which she won the grand prize on The $64,000 Question in the category of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
.

owing some work as a model, Feldon's break came in the form of a popular and much parodied television commercial for "Top Brass," a hair pomade for men.






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Barbara Feldon (born Barbara Hall on March 12, 1932 in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania
Bethel Park, Pennsylvania

Bethel Park is a Devolution municipality in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States, and is part of the Pittsburgh Metro Area, approximately 8 miles southwest of Pittsburgh....
) is an American actress and model
Model (person)

A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who poses or who is displayed for the purpose of art, fashion, or other product s and advertising....
.

Early life

She graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University is a top private university research university in Pittsburgh. Since its inception, Carnegie Mellon has grown into a world-renowned institution, with numerous programs that are frequently college and university rankings among the best in the world....
) in 1955 with a Bachelor of Arts in drama, shortly after which she won the grand prize on The $64,000 Question in the category of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
.

Career

Following some work as a model, Feldon's break came in the form of a popular and much parodied television commercial for "Top Brass," a hair pomade for men. Lounging languidly on an animal print rug, she purred at the camera, addressing the male viewers as "Tiger." This led to small roles in television series such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American television program that was broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1964, to January 15, 1968....
, Twelve O'Clock High
Twelve O'Clock High (TV series)

Twelve O'Clock High or 12 O'Clock High is an United States military Dramatic programming that aired on American Broadcasting Corporation....
 and Flipper
Flipper (1964 TV series)

Flipper is an United States of America television program first broadcast on NBC from September 18, 1964 until April 15, 1967. Flipper, a Bottlenose Dolphin, is the companion animal of Porter Ricks, Chief Warden at fictional Coral Key Park and Marine Preserve in southern Florida, and his two young sons Sandy and Bud....
, before Feldon was cast as "Agent 99" in the spy comedy series Get Smart
Get Smart

Get Smart is an United States comedy television series that Satire the Spy fiction genre. Created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, the show starred Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, and Barbara Feldon as Agent 99 of CONTROL, a secret U.S....
 opposite Don Adams
Don Adams

Don Adams was an United States actor, comedian, game show panelist and occasional Film director, who in his five decades of television was best known for his role as Maxwell Smart in the TV situation comedy Get Smart , for which he also directed and wrote....
. She played the role for the duration of the show's production from 1965 until 1970, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Comedy Series

This is a list of winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.Award winners and nominations1950s...
 in 1968 and 1969.

In 1964, she appeared with Simon Oakland
Simon Oakland

Simon Oakland was an American actor of theater, film, and television....
 in the episode "Try to Find a Spy" of CBS's short-lived drama Mr. Broadway
Mr. Broadway

Mr. Broadway was a 13-episode Columbia Broadcasting System adventure and drama television series starring Craig Stevens , formerly of Peter Gunn, as New York City public relations specialist Mike Bell....
, starring Craig Stevens
Craig Stevens

Craig Stevens may refer to:*Craig Stevens *Craig Stevens , reporter on WSVN*Craig Stevens *Craig Stevens , British TV and radio presenter*Craig Stevens , Australian swimmer...
. Feldon's subsequent work includes appearances in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In was an United States sketch comedy television program which ran for 140 episodes from January 22, 1968 to May 14, 1973....
, Lorne Greene
Lorne Greene

Lyon Chaim Green Order of Canada, Doctor of Laws was a Canada actor, best known in the United States for his roles on two American television programs: the long-running western Bonanza and the shorter-lived original incarnation of the cult classic science fiction franchise of Battlestar Galactica ....
's Griff
Griff (TV series)

Griff is a 13-episode American Broadcasting Company crime drama starring Lorne Greene and Ben Murphy , which aired from September 29, 1973, to January 5, 1974....
, Cheers
Cheers

Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for eleven seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television for NBC, having been created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles....
 and Mad About You
Mad About You

Mad About You is an United States sitcom that aired on NBC from September 23, 1992, to May 23, 1999. The show starred Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt as a newly married couple in New York City....
 for television, the films Fitzwilly
Fitzwilly

Fitzwilly is a 1967 in film film by Delbert Mann, based on Poyntz Tyler's novel, A Garden of Cucumbers, adapted for the screen by Isobel Lennart....
 (1967) and Smile
Smile (1975 film)

Smile is a 1975 in film film directed by American director Michael Ritchie , with a screenplay by Jerry Belson, about a beauty pageant in Santa Rosa, California....
 (1975), and as a commercial voice performer (The Dinosaurs! Flesh on the Bone, 1993).

She has reprised her role as "Agent 99" in made-for-television film Get Smart, Again!
Get Smart, Again!

Get Smart, Again! is a made-for-TV movie based on the 1965-1970 NBC/CBS television series, Get Smart!, which originally aired February 26, 1989 on American Broadcasting Company ....
 (1989) and a short lived television series also titled Get Smart
Get Smart (1995 TV series)

Get Smart was a short-lived weekly series that aired in 1995 on Fox Broadcasting Company. The series was a sequel to the original Get Smart television series that ran from 1965 in television to 1970 in television....
 in 1995. She provided audio commentaries for the DVD release of the original Get Smart series in 2006.

Divorced since 1967, Feldon resides in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 and is the author of Living Alone and Loving It (2003).

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