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1937-04-10 · Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA · Female

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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, Trial and Error, and many others.

Her first film was the 1961 3D feature The Mask, which later became a cult classic. Other feature film appearances include Sleeping With the Enemy (with Julia Roberts), All the Marbles (with Peter Falk), and Tuff Turf (with James Spader).

Her work in regional theaters included the following: Arena Stage; Major Barbara, The Iceman Cometh, Ring Round the Moon, The Cherry Orchard with the Atlanta Repertory; King Arther, The Hostage, The Little Foxes, Major Barbara, The Homecoming, You Can't Take It With You, Twelfth Night, and with LA Shakespeare; Comedy of Errors; La Mirada: Blithe Spirit.

Nevins was a member of the Matrix Theatre Company, where she appeared in Alan Bennett's Habeas Corpus, J. B. Priestley's Dangerous Corner, Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest, and The Water Children. Other stage appearances in Los Angeles include Passion Play (Taper), Isn't it Romantic? (Pasadena), P.S. Your Cat is Dead (Westwood) and Philadelphia Story (Court).

She was a member of the Antaeus Company and with them has done staged readings of Noël Coward's Hay Fever, O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, and Shakespeare's Richard III and King John.

In addition, she had extensive on-camera and voice-over commercial credits.

Personal life

Nevins married Benjamin L. Pick, with whom she had two daughters, Jessica and Sabrina. Nevins died February 20, 2020, in hospice care at her home in Los Angeles.

Film

1961: The Mask.... Pam Albright

1981: All the Marbles.... Solly

1982: The American Adventure.... Mother (voice)

1983: Over Here, Mr. President.... Maggie Bohanon

1985: Tuff Turf.... Page Hiller

1987: Jake's M.O..... Sigournet Tompkins

1991: Sleeping with the Enemy.... Dr. Rissner

1996: Final Vendetta.... Dr. Lisa Farrow

1997: The Doyles

1998: Star Trek: Insurrection.... Son'a Officer

2000: Aladdin and the Adventure of All Time.... (voice)

2004: Eulogy.... Barbara Collins

Claudette Nevins at the Internet Off-Broadway Database (archived)

Claudette Nevins at the Internet Broadway Database

Claudette Nevins at Find a Grave