Linda Harrison

Linda Harrison
File:Linda Harrison.jpg As Nova in Planet of the Apes
Occupation	actress/model
Years active	1961-present

Linda Harrison (born July 26, 1945) is an American model and actress.

Career

Linda Harrison was born in Berlin, Maryland. She starred as Paulette Douglas, a starlet under contract to a major movie studio, in the short-lived NBC TV series Bracken's World (1969–1970), which also featured Laraine Stephens and Karen Jensen in similar roles. She is known for her role as Charlton Heston's female mate "Nova" in the 1968 film Planet of the Apes, and its 1970 sequel Beneath the Planet of the Apes. She also had a cameo in Tim Burton's 2001 remake Planet of the Apes. She was married to the film producer Richard D. Zanuck from 1968 to 1978. She is also the first actress to play a live-action version of Wonder Woman, which she did in a failed 1967 pilot for a Wonder Woman television series.

Filmography

• The Fat Spy (1966)
• Way...Way Out (1966)
• A Guide for the Married Man (1967)
• Wonder Woman: Who's Afraid of Diana Prince? (1967), a TV pilot
• Planet of the Apes (1968)
• Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
• Airport 1975 (1974)
• Cocoon (1985)
• Cocoon: The Return (1988)
• Planet of the Apes (2001)

References

• "Linda Harrison", by Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide, online at the New York Times. Retrieved April 27, 2010.

External links

• Linda Harrison at IMDb
• "The LINDA HARRISON Interview", by Mike Smith, at Crazed Fanboy.
• "Linda Harrison Interview" at The Forbidden Zone.