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Lois Nettleton, two-time Emmy Award-winning actor, and Mega Genius^®

Lois Nettleton was Miss Chicago of 1948, a semi-finalist in that year’s Miss America Pageant, and an Emmy Award-winning American Actor of stage, film and television.

Her stage credits include A Face in the Crowd, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, and a widely acclaimed performance, in 1973, as Blanche DuBois, in A Streetcar Named Desire.  Rex Reed, writing for The Chicago Tribune - New York News Syndicate, called her performance “shatteringly brilliant.”  In 1976, as Amy, in They Knew What They Wanted, she was nominated for a Tony Award.

Her film roles included Tennessee Williams’ Period of Adjustment.

Lois’ appeared in more than 100 television roles, including Captain Video; Twilight Zone; Cagney & Lacey; Baywatch Nights; Seinfeld; Bonanza; The Fugitive; Full House; Kung Fu; Route 66; The FBI; Cannon; The Facts of Life; The Mary Tyler Moore Show; and Murder, She Wrote.

Lois Nettleton received an Emmy Award nomination for her acting in an episode of The Golden Girls.  In 1975, she received another Emmy nomination for her work in the TV movie Fear on Trial.  In 1989, she received still another Emmy nomination for her acting in the series In the Heat of the Night.

For three years, she played Virginia Benson on the soap opera General Hospital.

The very attractive actor received an Emmy Award nomination for her role in The American Woman: Profiles in Courage, in 1976, and another for her acting in an episode of the religious anthology Insight, in 1983.  She won both times.

“I’m a character actress,” she said.  “I always wanted to be as different in everything as possible.”

Lois Nettleton passed away from lung cancer in 2008, at age 80.

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