Nan Martin

Nan Martin (born July 15, 1927) is an American actress who has starred in movies and on television.

Martin's first movie role was in the 1956 movie The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. Her other film roles include The Mugger (1958), Doctor Detroit (1983), All of Me (1984), A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) where she played the role of Amanda Krueger, the mother of killer Freddy Krueger. Nan's most recent film role is in the 2005 telefilm Thicker than Water.

Martin has starred on the tv show Mr. Sunshine. Her other well known TV role was in the 1983 miniseries The Thorn Birds and on the soap opera Santa Barbara. Nan had a recurring role on the ABC hit tv series The Drew Carey Show as Mrs. Lauder. She has made a lot of guest appearances on many television series, some of those appearances range from Ben Casey, The Untouchables, The Twilight Zone, and Star Trek: The Next Generation as Victoria Miller in the season 1 episode "Haven". She appeared on an episode of The Golden Girls as the mean-spirited and nasty Frieda Claxton, who was told to drop dead by Rose Nylund and she surprisingly does. She also portrays Philomena, a friend of Sophia Petrillo's from Sicily, who claimed that Dorothy Zbornak was really her daughter and not Sophia's.

Her first husband was musical composer Robert E. Dolan whom she married on March 17, 1948. They had one son, Casey Martin Dolan. Her second husband, Harry Gesner, is the father of her other son, actor Zen Gesner.

Filmography

• The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) (uncredited)
• The Buster Keaton Story (1957)
• Toys in the Attic (1963)
• Goodbye, Columbus (1969)
• The Other Side of the Mountain (1975)
• The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 (1978)
• Doctor Detroit (1983)
• All of Me (1984)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
• Animal Behavior (1989)
• Pirates of Darkwater (voice)
• Last Gasp (1995)
• Cast Away (2000)
• Big Eden (2000)
• Shallow Hal (2001)
• Greener Mountains (2004)
• Thicker than Water (2005)

External links

• Nan Martin at the Internet Movie Database
• Nan Martin at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)