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| - Brenda Benet (August 14, 1945 - April 7, 1982) was an American actress.
- Benet was born Brenda Ann Nelson in Hollywood, California. After attending UCLA for a time, majoring in language, she went into acting. Her first acting roles occured in 1964 when she made guest appearances on the television shows Shindig! and Wendy and Me before performing her breakthrough role as Jill McComb on the soap opera, The Young Married. She would become an actress much in demand by episodic prime time television shows in the 1960s and 1970s, appearing in such TV shows as I Dream of Jeannie, Mannix, Hogan's Heroes, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, My Three Sons, Love, American Style and It Takes a Thief. She would also have an important role in the film, Walking Tall, playing a kind-hearted prostitute.
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| - Benet was born Brenda Ann Nelson in Hollywood, California. After attending UCLA for a time, majoring in language, she went into acting. Her first acting roles occured in 1964 when she made guest appearances on the television shows Shindig! and Wendy and Me before performing her breakthrough role as Jill McComb on the soap opera, The Young Married. She would become an actress much in demand by episodic prime time television shows in the 1960s and 1970s, appearing in such TV shows as I Dream of Jeannie, Mannix, Hogan's Heroes, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, My Three Sons, Love, American Style and It Takes a Thief. She would also have an important role in the film, Walking Tall, playing a kind-hearted prostitute. Although most of her roles would have her playing characters who were either sweet or seductive, Benet would become best known for her recurring role as scheming villainess Lee Dumonde on the popular daytime serial Days of our Lives, a role she would play from 1979 until her death in 1982, as her character was constantly trying to break up one of the show's popular couples, Doug and Julie, thus outraging the show's fans. Benet would be married twice, the first time to The Donna Reed Show star, Paul Petersen in 1967. Their marriage would last until 1971, when they got a divorce. Two years before, in 1969, Benet had already left Petersen for actor Bill Bixby, marrying him after she had gotten her divorce from Petersen. She and Bixby would have a son, Christopher, in 1974, but they would later divorce in 1980. A year later, in 1981, Benet's son Christopher, during a skiing vacation, would go into cardia arrest and later die. It is believed that both his death and her divorce from Bixby would lead her to commit suicide via a self-inflicted gun wound, on April 7, 1982 at the young age of 36.
- Brenda Benet (August 14, 1945 - April 7, 1982) was an American actress.
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