Barbara Feldon Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Barbara Feldon (born March 12, 1933) is an American character actress who works mostly in the theatre but is primarily known for her roles on television. Her most prominent role was that of Agent 99 on the 1960s sitcom Get Smart. She also worked as a model.
Full Name
Barbara Feldon
Net Worth
$900,000
Date Of Birth
March 12, 1933
Place Of Birth
Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, USA
Height
1.75 m
Occupation
Actress, model, television host, writer
Profession
Television presenter, Writer, Actor, Model
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
Nationality
American
Spouse
Lucien Verdoux-Feldon
Siblings
Patricia Hall
Partner
Burt Nodella
Nicknames
Barbara Feldon, Feldon, Barbara
IMDB
Awards
TV Land Favorite Fashion Plate - Female Award
Nominations
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Movies
Fitzwilly, Get Smart, Again!, No Deposit, No Return, A Vacation in Hell, Let's Switch!, Smile, The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas, Sooner or Later, Last Request, A Guide for the Married Woman, Before and After
TV Shows
Get Smart, The Dean Martin Comedy World
Star Sign
Pisces
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Quote
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I was a very loving and good friends with Don Adams in the years after Get Smart (1965) and until he died. We never really bonded during the show except as characters. He was preoccupied with the role. We just thought of ourselves as congenial business colleagues. Yes. There was an extra sweetness about them, a sense of nostalgia. And you never know when something will turn into art. I don't think it's pretentious to say it was art, maybe pop art. Every element worked. It was crafted like a comic strip, in a way. Everything had to pay off with a laugh. Don would say 'there are too many words' or 'the set up isn't right'. There was no improvisation. There is a sort of poetry to writing comedy. Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words. And Don's instincts were infallible. We never rehearsed. I think we got more skilled as time went on. I did. At first, I had one foot in my little girl's self and one foot in my grown-up self. You can see it in my character. By the end, I had both feet in my adult self. 99 still had an adoration for Maxwell Smart, but with more authority. (on her professional on- and off-screen friendship with Don Adams, who played Maxwell Smart)
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I wish I could say this was a wonderful script.....It was like what I would call mind candy and it just got rid of the best perfectly good 2 hours of your life. (on her part in the film, Let's Switch! (1975).
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"There's not a day when somebody doesn't smile and say, 'Oh, you're Agent 99.' I like being in a world that regards me in a friendly way." Interview with Toby Kahn, 1983.
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Fact
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New York City. [February 2005]
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She studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.
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In 1968, during the original run of the series, she married Get Smart (1965) producer, Burt Nodella. They divorced in 1979.
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Though she's still the youngest cast member of Get Smart (1965), most sources claimed she was born in 1941.
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Says that she enjoys writing poetry, studying, and "living."
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Best remembered by the public for her starring role as CONTROL agent 99 in Get Smart (1965).
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Long after Get Smart (1965) had ended its series run in 1970, she enjoyed a very successful TV commercial voice-over career, which lasted well into the 80s.
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Feldon's Get Smart (1965) character, Agent 99, was named "most stylish secret agent" at the 2004 TV Land Hall of Fame awards.
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Pop-art quad-portrait done in 1965 by Andy Warhol.
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Does voiceovers for commercials today, and performed a one-woman show in the '90s.
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Was nearsighted as a young woman.
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Likes minimalist interior decoration.
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She graduated from Bethel Park High School in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.
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She has a sister named Patricia.
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Wrote a self-help book in 2003 called "Living Alone and Loving It"
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Hosted a magazine-type syndicated TV show Special Edition (1977).
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Graduated from Carnegie-Mellon in 1955.
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When she started Get Smart (1965), she was already famous, albeit anonymously, for lolling on a tiger skin rug as she purred the praises of Top Brass hair cream.
