Brenda Benet
Brenda Benet was born in Hollywood, California, United States on August 14th, 1945 and is the Soap Opera Actress. At the age of 36, Brenda Benet biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Brenda Ann Benet (August 14, 1945 – April 7, 1982) was an American television and film actress.
Benet was best known for her appearances on the soap operas The Young Marrieds and Days of Our Lives.
Personal life
In 1967, Susan Petersen married The Donna Reed Show actor Paul Petersen in her first marriage. Benet left Petersen for actor Bill Bixby in 1969. Bixby married Petersen in 1971 after her divorce from Petersen came to an end. Christopher Sean, the couple's first child, was born in September 1974 and then divorced in 1980. Benet was in a relationship with future pundit Tammy Bruce before the divorce and into her death.
After she was divorced from Bixby, Benet faced a variety of personal and professional challenges. Fans were outraged by Benet's appearance on Days of Our Lives; she was breaking up one of the show's most popular couples, Doug and Julie, and viewers were outraged. Benet's most personal challenge came when her six-year-old son Christopher died in March 1981. Christopher was suffering acute epiglotis while skiing in Mammoth Lakes over the weekend, resulting in a coma and cardiac arrest after doctors administered a tracheotomy.
Early life and career
Benet was born Brenda Ann Nelson in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California; later, her family moved to South Gate. She graduated from South Gate High School, attended Los Angeles City College, then studied at the University of California at Los Angeles, majoring in languages. She studied with San Francisco Ballet, was featured in several productions of the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, was a musician who played piano, flute and violin, and was fluent in five languages.
Her first acting roles were in 1964, with appearances on Shindig! and The Young Marrieds. She eventually became an actress very much in demand for roles in episodic primetime television in the 1960s and 1970s, including I Dream of Jeannie; McHale's Navy; Daniel Boone; Mannix; My Three Sons; Hogan's Heroes; Love, American Style; Wonder Woman; The Love Boat and The Courtship of Eddie's Father. She also had a major role in the feature film Walking Tall (1973).
Although many of the characters she portrayed seemed to be either sweet or seductive, she became perhaps best known for her role as scheming villainess Lee Dumonde on the daytime serial Days of Our Lives, a role she played from 1979 until her death in 1982.