Actress. She is best remembered for her portrayal of the feisty spitfire Maria O'Reilly in "The Last of the Fast Guns" (1958). Born Marta Victoria Moya Peggo Burges, the daughter of a publisher, after attaining her formal education at the Conservatorio Franklin in Uruguay, she began her career as a model in Mexico. While attending a fashion show in Mexico, she was discovered by director Miguel Alemán Velasco. Impressed by her dark good looks, hourglass figure, and sultry voice, he took notice of her potential and arranged for her to begin a career in the film industry beginning with her appearing under his supervision per a supporting role in "When the Fog Lifts" (1952). From there, she would go on to flourish as a notable character actress appearing in over 40 features; often typecast as wives, mothers, femme fatales, women with a past, gold diggers, playgirls, chorines, torch singers, glamour dolls, debutantes, secretaries, educators, doctors, white-collared workers, nurses, housekeepers, waitresses, historical or literary figures, retail clerks, managers, judges, busybodies, snobs, dowagers, artists, eccentrics, landladies, neighbors, curmudgeons, exotics, nobility, clergywomen, and matriarchs. She appeared in such feature films as "The Magnificent Breast" (1952), "Forbidden Fruit" (1953), "Genius and Figure" (1953), "The Spot of the Family" (1953), "With the Devil in the Body" (1954), "The 7 Leagues" (1955), "Devil's Revenge" (1955), "Comanche" (1956), "Enemies" (1956), "The Devil Disappears" (1957), "The Fiend Who Walked the West" (1958), "The Perfect Furlough" (1958), "Seven Sins" (1959), "Cry Tough" (1959), "Legions of the Nile" (1959), "The Alamo" (1960), "The Pharaoh's Woman" (1960), "Two Rode Together" (1961), "The Green Flags of Allah" (1963), "Panic in the City" (1968), and "Mr. Majestyk" (1974). On television, she appeared in various guest spots on such syndicated sitcoms as "Rawhide," "The Tab Hunter Show," "Alcoa Premiere," "Iron Horse," "T.H.E. Cat," "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea," "The High Chaparral," "Bonanza," "Cade's County," "Police Story," "The Driver," "Barnaby Jones," "Condominium," "Fantasy Island," "The Love Boat," "Rosse," and "General Hospital". During her career, she held dual citizenship with the United States and Argentina, had been a member of the Screen Actors Guild, was supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, was a member of the Hollywood Democratic Committee, was a regular parishioner of the Catholic church, presided as a chairwoman for her local charters of the American Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity, was accoladed as a 1956 Deb Star, was the celebrity spokeswoman for Princess Cruises and Sandeman Wine, had been cited by gossip columnist Louella Parsons as being "Argentina's Most Alluring Export", was a licensed real estate agent, had been one of the many founding members of the Canyon Theatre Guild, and she was married to businessman Robert W. Champion from 1958 to 1959 and actor Yale Wexler from 1960 to 1966 (both unions ended in divorce and she produced two sons from her second marriage). Upon her 1988 retirement, she spent the remainder of her life being a regular attendee at autograph conventions, was a generous benefactor for several public schools and state parks, divided time between her homes in Beverly Hills, California and Buenos Aires, and was involved in charitable and religious causes, until her death from the complications of advanced age.