Lee Meriwether
Lee Ann Meriwether ( born May 27, 1935 in Los Angeles ) is an American actress and Miss America of 1955.
Life
Lee Ann Meriwether was born as the daughter of Claudius Gregg Meriwether (1904-1954) and Ethel Eve Mulligan ( 1903-1996 ). Together with a younger brother, she grew up in San Francisco and Phoenix, Arizona. Your college degree earned Meriwether at George Washington High School in San Francisco, where the later singer Johnny Mathis was one of her classmates. She then studied at the City College of San Francisco, together with the later actor Bill Bixby. 1954, after her election as Miss San Francisco, she became Miss California (1954 ) and 1955 finally crowned the Miss America. After her term as Miss America, she joined the Today Show at.
In parallel, Meriwether began as an actress participate in individual episodes of smaller television series. Made her feature film debut in the title role of Linda Davis in the science fiction film The 4D man. In 1966, she replaced Julie Newmar in the role of Catwoman for the movie Batman holds the world in suspense. Longer series she had appearances in Time Tunnel, Barnaby Jones, Family Munster and All My Children. For Barnaby Jones, Meriwether was twice nominated for a Golden Globe. For the two video games Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (2008) and Vanquish (2010) she was engaged as a voice actress.
From 1958 until the divorce in 1974 Lee Meriwether was married to Frank Aletter, with whom she has two daughters together. Since 21 September 1986, she is married to Marshall Borden.