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Nancy Dussault
Dussault in 2010
Born	(1936-06-30) June 30, 1936 (age 82) Pensacola, Florida, U.S.
Residence	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Education	Northwestern University
Occupation	Actress & Singer
Years active	1961–present
Spouse(s)	James Dunton Travis (m. 1958; div. 1982) Valentine Mayer (m. 1985)

Nancy Dussault (born June 30, 1936) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role in the sitcom Too Close for Comfort (1980–1987). In a career spanning over half a century, Dussault received two Tony Award nominations.

Early life

Born in Pensacola, Florida, her parents were George Adrian, a naval officer of French-Canadian descent and Sarah Isabel (née Seitz).^[1] She grew up as a "Navy junior"^{[clarification needed]}. A former resident of Arlington, Virginia, she graduated from Washington-Lee High School (W-L) where she was an actress and singer in the W-L drama program under director Jack Jeglum and a choral singer in the nationally known Washington-Lee High School Choir and Madrigal Singers under director Florence Booker. She is an alumna of Northwestern University.

Broadway

In 1962, Dussault stepped into the role of Maria in the Broadway production of The Sound of Music. She received a Tony Award nomination in 1961 for Best Featured Actress (Musical) for Do Re Mi and was nominated for her performance in Bajour (1965). Of her performance in Do Re Mi and later career, Bloom and Vlastnik wrote: "Confidently clowning alongside such pros as Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker...she never faded into the scenery. Equally comfortable as a pure soprano or a rangy high belter, her versatility was well captured on the...cast album...Well cast as a situation comedy wife, she spent much of the 1970s and 80s in California." ^[2] Other stage shows included Quality Street in 1965 at the Bucks County Playhouse in Pennsylvania.^[3] She also appeared in the City Center Gilbert & Sullivan NYC Company, directed by Dorothy Raedler, with such Metropolitan Opera singers as Nico Castel, Muriel Costa-Greenspon, and Frank Poretta, Sr. Dussault took over as the Witch in Into the Woods on Broadway (1987–1989). She had appeared twelve years earlier in the revue Side by Side by Sondheim on Broadway.

Film

In Arthur Hiller's 1979 film, The In-Laws, she played Carol Kornpett, wife of Alan Arkin who played Sheldon S. Kornpett, D.D.S.

Television

On television, she was a regular on the 1970s series The New Dick Van Dyke Show and the long running CBS game show Match Game. She also played Ted Knight's wife in the role of the photographer Muriel Rush on the 1980s situation comedy Too Close for Comfort. She was part of the first anchor team of Good Morning America, paired with David Hartman, when the show launched in 1975. She was the first actress to portray the character of Theresa Stemple, the mother of character Jamie Stemple Buchman, in season one of the NBC TV series Mad About You.

Awards and nominations

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nancy Dussault.

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  Nancy Dussault on IMDb


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  Nancy Dussault at the Internet Broadway Database


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  Nancy Dussault at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
  


• Biography, americantheatrewing.org as of January 2009