Claudette Nevins

Claudette Nevins (née Weintraub; April 10, 1937 – February 20, 2020) was an American stage, film and television actress. Biography Claudette Nevins was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. She was a daughter of merchant Joseph Weintraub and garment worker Anna Lander, both of whom emigrated from small towns in Austria to America. Nevins was a graduate of the Fiorello H. LaGuardia School of Performing Arts and a 1957 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of New York University, with a degree in English. Nevins debuted on Broadway in The Wall (1960) with other Broadway appearances including Plaza Suite (1968) and Danton's Death (1965). She also appeared in In White America (off-Broadway) with Gloria Foster and Moses Gunn. The National Company of The Great White Hope, in which she starred with Brock Peters, took her to Los Angeles, after which she began working in television. For two and a half years she was seen in the long-running daytime soap opera Love of Life playing Laurie Krakauer. She appeared as a series regular in Headmaster (opposite Andy Griffith), Husbands, Wives, and Lovers, and Married: the First Year (a David Jacobs project). Her guest star appearances include Beverly Hills 90210, Barnaby Jones, Melrose Place, JAG, Three's Company, Lou Grant, Without a Trace, M*A*S*H, Hart to Hart, and many others.