Nancy O'Brien is an actress, Playboy model, and writer, who has spent a lifetime exploring and discovering the world. Nancy grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she began her acting career at the age of six, after being selected as the lead role of the very first play for which she auditioned. Nancy continued performing in various productions as a child, and subsequently began taking acting classes. She received financial and emotional support from her late Uncle Carl, aka the beloved Carl the Barber, for her acting interests. During high school, Nancy joined the drama club, and also continued with her acting classes on the weekends. These outlets provided a perfect opportunity for the independent, adventurous, and very young Nancy, to travel to Canada for the Shakespeare festival, who at 16, was the youngest adventurer in the group. Nancy continued to follow her ambitions and submit to her boundless energy, auditioning and enrolling in the intense Summer Arts Theatre Program at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. After graduating high school, Nancy began acting in TV commercials and movies, and also began modeling swimsuits and lingerie, all while maintaining her full time student status at Point Park University as a theatre major. While enrolled at Point Park, Nancy took a leap of faith and moved to London, England, to continue her education, where she studied Shakespeare at Imperial College Union in South Kensington, through Roger Williams University. She arrived early and lived with a family in London, in order to explore the culture and excitement offered by London. Following her studies, Nancy traveled throughout Great Britain with two other girls on a shoestring budget, often hitchhiking and arriving in new towns without prior accommodations or lodgings! Nancy continued her travels by herself when she took a ferry boat to Ireland, staying with her cousins, whom she had never met. She then made it as far as Germany before returning to the United States. When she returned, Nancy decided to continue her studies at California State University-Northridge, where she eventually graduated with a Bachelors of Arts in Theatre. During her studies at CSUN, Nancy did extra work as a sexy college student in a Playboy video, entitled The Freshman Class, where she was immediately noticed by the executive producer, who cast her as the lead role in the video. Not long after that, Nancy appeared in several other Playboy videos, Playboy movies, Playboy TV shows, and Playboy radio programs. Nancy was also featured in several of Playboy's Special Edition magazines, including two issues of Sexy Celebrities (2001 and 2002), as well as Playboy's Natural Beauties (1999) and was featured and honored as Playboy's Perfect 10 Model in (2000). She was also featured in Playboy magazine, November (2000), and April (2001). In addition to her work with Playboy, Nancy also co-hosted Danni's Point Spread, a sports show dedicated to football. She also wrote and performed her own stand-up comedy material. She even got cast in the lead role of one of her favorite genres, a fun campy horror film, entitled The Backlot Murders, which was shot at Universal Studios. Nancy spends her free time rock climbing, mountaineering in remote locations around the world, including Morocco and Peru, and now is continuing the pursuit of her greatest passion- writing novels and screenplays.
Nancy O'Dell began her broadcast career as a reporter and anchor at WPDE-TV in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. She later worked as morning news anchor and crime reporter at WCBD-TV. While in Charleston, O'Dell's reports on the lenient police approach to DUI cases led to a State Law Enforcement Division investigation that resulted in state authorities re-issuing a more stringent directive regarding these cases. Ms. O'Dell was honored by the Associated Press with the Best Report of the Year Award (all media, South Carolina). Following her work in Charleston, O'Dell served as co-anchor and investigative reporter for NBC's Miami station, WTVJ-TV, before joining Access Hollywood (1996) as a weekend co-anchor and weekday correspondent in 1996. In addition to her current work as a lead anchor on Access Hollywood (1996), Ms. O'Dell also contributes to NBC News' Today (1952), and also to Dateline NBC (1992). She has covered such events as The Oscars, The Emmys, The Grammys and The Golden Globe Awards, as well as co-hosting a number of Pre-Show/Arrivals shows for The Emmys and the Golden Globes. She also co-hosted the Miss USA 2005 pageant, and the Miss Universe 2005 pageant. Although O'Dell maintains a busy work schedule, she regularly makes time for philanthropic endeavors. The American Red Cross, the March of Dimes, Best Buddies, and Childhelp USA have all benefited from her efforts. A leader from the start, Nancy was valedictorian of her high school class, and is a summa cum laude honors graduate of Clemson University. A native of South Carolina, O'Dell was inducted into that state's Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame in 1998. She was the youngest member ever and was awarded in recognition of her journalistic success.
Early on, Nancy appeared in local Boston, Massachusetts TV commercials and was a model and host for many entertainment, automobile, and beauty trade shows in the area. She engaged with people from all over the globe. Nancy is a full-time professional, non-union voice actor experienced in voicing characters for video games, game trailers, apps, animation, film, podcasts/audio dramas, TV spots, and online promos. She works remotely from her modern, fully equipped home recording studio in scenic New Hampshire. She is a wife, mother, business owner, and lover of everything sci-fi, Star Wars, and Star Trek-related. Nancy is a nature lover, history buff, and a long-time gamer. World of Warcraft along with the Final Fantasy, GTA, Silent Hill, and Resident Evil series are some favorites. She also enjoys visiting Disneyworld, studying her craft, and waiting on her lovable senior cat, Jinx who runs the household. Nancy has a highly versatile vocal tone and age range and is most often cast for character roles for AI voices, mature/ fantasy/ethereal, intelligent/serious/scientific, senior/wicked/crone, or heartfelt/emotional and real.
Nancy Oeswein is known for Moving Parts (2017), A Bennett Song Holiday (2020) and Betrayed (2018).
Nancy Ozelli is an actress, known for The Producers (2005), On the Rocks (2020) and Crowning Glory: A Psycho Thriller.
Nancy P. Corbo was born in Queens, New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Passing Through (2003), Resurrection of Serious Rogers (2010) and 18 Fingers of Death! (2006).
Nancy Palk was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She is an actress, known for Keely and Du (2018), Rogue (2013) and The Other Half (2016). She has been married to Joseph Ziegler since 1979. They have three children.
Nancy Parent is known for The Little Mermaid (1989), Oliver & Company (1988) and Howard (2018).
Nancy Parsons was born in Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota, to Mary Margaret née Samsa and Charles Walter Parsons. She had two siblings -- Mary Jean Parsons and Theresa Mae Macrae née Parsons. When she was seventeen, her father remarried Genevieve Stack and moved with the three girls to South Pasadena, California. It was here that the acting bug first bit, when she appeared in the senior play and was subsequently given a full scholarship to the famed Pasadena Playhouse; 1960-1962. In her two years there, she appeared in some of the great works of Edward Albee, Clifford Odets, Tennessee Williams, Max Bollinger, and William Shakespeare, among others. Nancy married Alan Hipwell immediately after graduation and gave birth to Elizabeth Hipwell, on November 3, 1964, and to Margaret Hipwell, on October 7, 1969. She returned to acting after divorcing her husband. While at UCLA, completing a theatre degree, she won the Hugh O'Brien Award; an event that launched her career. This award drew her to her lifelong friend and agent Susan Smith. Throughout her career, she garnered a Family Film Award for Best Actress in Porky's Revenge (1985), an Academy of Science Fiction and Fantasy nomination for Best Supporting Actress in Motel Hell (1980), a Dramalogue Award for the play "Dead End At Sunset," and a woman of the year award from the Alumni Association of her alma mater, The Pasadena Playhouse. These are all her career achievements, but we would say the greatest legacy she has left us is the ability to live passionately, as individuals. Nancy always believed that art was the noblest of paths one could follow -- that it took an immense amount of courage, stamina and chutzpah (one of her favorite words). Nancy is survived by Margot Hipwell and her children Cassidy Coulson, and Jasper Coulson, and me, Elizabeth Hipwell. Thank you Mom! You will never be forgotten!