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Barbara Feldon is an American actress best known for playing the character Agent 99 in the 1960s comedy series Get Smart.

Hailing from Pennsylvania, Feldon studied dramatic arts at the Pittsburgh Playhouse and Carnegie Mellon University.

While Feldon was successful in working as a model, it was a parodied television commercial for Top Brass that gave her a start in acting. This led to small roles in television series, incluidng Twelve O’Clock High, Lorne Greene’s Griff, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Flipper, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

She was then cast in the in the spy comedy series Get Smart, co-created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, starring opposite Don Adams as Agent 99. She played the role for the duration of the show’s production from 1965 until 1970, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1968 and 1969.

Feldon reprised her role as Agent 99 in the made-for-television film Get Smart, Again! (1989) and a short-lived television series also titled Get Smart in 1995.

Feldon went on to appear in a number of other shows including The Dean Martin Show, The Name of the Game, McMillan & Wife, and Mad About You. She also appeared in the films A Vacation in Hell, Fitzwilly, Smile and No Deposit, No Return.