Nancy Berg (July 9, 1931 – February 4, 2022) was an American model and actress. Berg was born in

Kenosha, Wisconsin Kenosha () is a city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Kenosha County. Per the 2020 census, the population was 99,986 which made it the fourth-largest city in Wisconsin. Situated on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan, Kenos ...

to Paul Axel Berg and Dorothy Esther ( Schanock) Berg. She ran away from home there in 1947 and moved to Detroit to become a model. By 1960, she was earning $40,000 per year. Berg was on the front cover of ''

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'' four times, starting in 1953, and was '' Esquires "Lady Fair" for May of 1956. She was also the star and sole performer for a 1955 New York television program entitled ''Count Sheep with Nancy Berg'' which aired five nights a week from 1:00 to 1:05 in the morning. "The nightgown-clad Miss Berg would appear, get into bed, perform a bit of business, such as read from '' Romeo and Juliet'' or eat grapes off a toy

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, and then, in extreme close-up, whisper a good night to the camera and pretend to go to sleep as animated sheep jumped over a fence. Her manager stated, 'A lot of people watch it. God knows why.'" In 1962, Berg toured with Bob Cummings in a production of ''Tunnel of Love''. Berg was married to actor

Geoffrey Horne Geoffrey Horne (born August 22, 1933) is an American actor, director, and acting coach at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. His screen credits include ''The Bridge on the River Kwai'', '' Bonjour Tristesse'', '' The Strange One'', '' ...

on February 6, 1958, with whom she had a child. They divorced in 1962. She was also married to, and divorced from, Alan Elliott and Richard Praeger in the 1960s. She died on February 4, 2022, at the age of 90, in New York.

Filmography

* ''

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'' (1964) as Ilsa Wolfe * ''Thunder in Dixie'' (1964) as Karen Hallet * ''Count Sheep with Nancy Berg'' (1955)

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1931 births 2022 deaths 21st-century American women Actors from Kenosha, Wisconsin Female models from Wisconsin {{US-model-stub