Noreen Nash was an American film and television actress, who after working as a model, had a two-decade long career during the Classical Hollywood Cinema era. She was also a published author.
Nash was born Norabelle Jean Roth on April 4, 1924, in Wenatchee, Washington. She received a screen test after being crowned Apple Blossom Queen in her hometown of Wenatchee, while she was still in high school. Nash began acting in the mid-1940s in several small, uncredited roles. Her big break came in 1947, when she starred in The Big Fix, a film about a gambling ring fixing college basketball games. That led to roles in such films as The Red Stallion, Assigned to Danger, The Checkered Coat, and Phantom from Space, among other movies of the 1940s and '50s. Nash also appeared in such TV shows as The Lone Ranger, The Abbott and Costello Show, My Little Margie, Dragnet, and 77 Sunset Strip before retiring from acting in 1962. She then turned her talents to writing, and wrote several books.
Nash died at her home in Beverly Hills, California, on June 6, 2023, at the age of 99.
