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Won $64,000 dollars on The $64, 000 Question (1955). Category: Shakespeare.

Best remembered by the public as CONTROL Agent 99 in Get Smart (1965), the character (whose real name is never learned, even after she marries Maxwell Smart), was named "most stylish secret agent" at the 2004 TV Land Hall of Fame awards.

When she started Get Smart (1965), she was already famous, albeit anonymously, for lolling on a tiger skin rug as she purred the praises of Top Brass hair cream.

The youngest cast member of Get Smart (1965), she gave her year of birth as 1941 for many years.

Pop-art quad-portrait done in 1965 by Andy Warhol.

Says that she enjoys writing poetry, studying, and "living."

In 2003, Feldon wrote a book titled Living Alone & Loving It: A Guide to Relishing the Solo Life. It was inspired by her own experience with living on her own after spending much of her life with a partner.

Currently resides in New York City [May 2020].

In 1968, during the original run of the series, she began a relationship with Get Smart (1965) producer, Burt Nodella. The relationship ended in 1979.

Raised near Pittsburgh with one sibling, a sister Patricia, Barbara Feldon graduated from Bethel Park High School (Bethel Park, Pennsylvania). Graduated from Carnegie-Mellon in 1955. Later studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.

Later in life career exploits include having performed a one-woman show in the 1990s, having hosted a magazine-type syndicated TV show Special Edition (1977), and doing voice overs for commercials. She wrote a self-help book in 2003, called "Living Alone and Loving It".

Likes minimalist interior decoration.

Published her memoir "Getting Smarter" via Stewart-Hall Books in 2024.

Was nearsighted as a young woman.

Studied acting at HB Studio in New York.

In 2015, she had two editorial pieces featured in Metropolitan Magazine.

Her parents were Raymond D. and Julia Stewart Hall.