Lee Meriwether
Grandma Eleanor
The 1955 Miss America, her feature film debut was Linda Davis in 4D Man, starring Robert Lansing. She portrayed Catwoman in Batman (1966), co-starred in the television series The Time Tunnel, Star Trek, and opposite John Wayne and Rock Hudson in The Undefeated. She also played opposite Andy Griffith in Angel in My Pocket (1969) and played IMF spy Tracy Fielding in six Mission: Impossible episodes. She had a long co-starring role as private detective Betty Jones in the 1973–1980 series Barnaby Jones.
In the 1970s and 1980s, she appeared on Circus of the Stars four times. In the 1990s, she appeared as herself on an episode of Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and in 1996, Meriwether took on the role of Ruth Martin on the soap opera All My Children. She also appeared Off Broadway in the interactive comedy, Grandma Sylvia's Funeral. She is also lending her voice in an upcoming video game for the PlayStation 3.




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