This girlishly attractive actress began her career as the perky TV Gidget in 1965; she then went on to play the equally perky The Flying Nun from 1967 to 1970. Both roles proved formidable obstacles in her subsequent attempts to make it as a serious actress. In the mid 1970s she played the female lead in the quirky 1976 bodybuilding drama Stay Hungry and as a woman with 17 distinct personalities in the compelling TV movie Sybil, for which she won an Emmy. After appearances in light-hearted movies like Smokey and... More