Actress. She is best remembered for her recurring portrayal of the headstrong Marjorie Brant on the television series "Bracken's World". Born Madeline Roche, she was raised in a working-class family, the oldest of two children born unto a single mother who worked as a women's clothing wholesaler following the desertion of her father. Growing up, she lived in several major cities and in her early teens her family settled in California and she received her public education at Los Angeles High School where she became highly involved in the drama club. Upon graduating, she enrolled as a theatrical major at Los Angeles City College and later transferred to the HB Studio in New York City, New York, where she attained her degree in theatrical arts. After beginning her career as a professional dancer with the prestigious Copacabana Nightclub, she relocated back to California to begin a career in the film and television industry starting with her appearing in a minor role on the sitcom "The Court of Last Resort". For the following three decades, she would go on to flourish as a character actress appearing in over 100 credits; often typecast as a wife, mother, girlfriend, gold-digger, villainess, girlfriend, chorine, secretary, educator, retail clerk, playgirl, doctor, clergywoman, librarian, housekeeper, love interest, snob, old maid, nurse, heroine, old maid, businesswoman, and, in her later years, matriarch. She appeared in leading roles in such full-length motion pictures as "Operation Petticoat" (1959), "The Ladies Man" (1961), "A Majority of One" (1961), "Escape from Zahrain" (1962), "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (1963), "He Rides Tall" (1964), "Kenner" (1968), and "Stand Up and Be Counted" (1972). On television, she became a familiar face appearing in various guest spots on such syndicated programs as "Whirlybirds," "The Third Man," "Have Gun - Will Travel," "Black Saddle," "M-Squad," "Riverboat," "Tightrope," "Tales of Wells Fargo," "Special Agent 7," "Gunsmoke," "Laramie," "Hotel de Paree," "Troubleshooters," "Perry Mason," "Mike Hammer," "The Alaskans," "The Roaring 20's," "Bourbon Street Beat," "Sugarfoot," "Bonanza," "Checkmate," "Hong Kong," "General Electric Theatre," "The Untouchables," "Route 66," "Rawhide," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "The Defenders," "Slattery's People," "Daniel Boone," "Laredo," "A Man Called Shenandoah," "The Fugitive," "Star Trek," "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.," "Cowboy in Africa," "The Guns of Will Sonnett," "Longstreet," "The Courtship of Eddie's Father," "Hawaii Five-O," "Mission: Impossible," "Barnaby Jones," "Mannix," "Ironside," "Baretta," "Police Story," "The Streets of San Francisco," "Starsky and Hutch," "Executive Suite," "Cannon," "Switch," "Charlie's Angels," "The Tony Randall Show," "Dynasty," "Hart to Hart," "CHiPs," "Fantasy Island," "Fame," "Diff'rent Strokes," "L.A. Law," "Houston Knights," "Bridges to Cross," and "Murder, She Wrote". During her career, she was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, was supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, was active with the California State Republican Committee, was an active parishioner of the Temple Israel of Hollywood, was an accomplished oil painter, was the official celebrity spokeswoman for the Multiple Sclerosis Society, and she was married to fellow actor Tony Young from 1962 to 1970 (their union ended in divorce and produced no children). In 1996, she retired from acting due to physical health issues and became a resident of the Motion Picture and Television Country House where she resided until her death from complications of pneumonia.