Brenda Buell Vaccaro (born November 18, 1939) is anAmerican actress. She is known for her roles inMidnight Cowboy,Once Is Not Enough,Airport '77,Capricorn One,The Pride of Jesse Hallam,Supergirl,The Mirror Has Two Faces,Heart of Midnight, and inZorro, The Gay Blade.
She received oneAcademy Award nomination, threeGolden Globe Award nominations (winning one), fourPrimetime Emmy Award nominations (winning one), and threeTony Award nominations.[1][2]
Her best known stage roles were inThe Affair (1962),Cactus Flower (1965),How Now, Dow Jones (1967),The Goodbye People (1968), the female version ofThe Odd Couple, (1985), andJake's Women (1992).