Joan Benedict

Actress/dancer

Born - 21 July 1927, New York City, USA
Died - 24 June 2024

Curvaceous, dark-haired American ballet dancer with striking oval-shaped features. Brought up in Paris and Rome. she had a few acting roles, and married actors John Myhers and Rod Steiger, both of whom pre-deceased her: BUtterfield 8 (1960), Saturday Night in Apple Valley (1965), Let's Call It Quits (1974), The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington (1977), The Prize Fighter (1979), Perfect Victims (1988), A Month of Sundays (2001), Sweet Underground (2004), The Theory of Everything (2006), Dead Border (2013) and Opus of an Angel (2017), her last. She died from stroke complications.