Background
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, she grew up in the Philippines, where her father worked as an engineer in sugar plantations and moved to New York City in the 1940s.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, she grew up in the Philippines, where her father worked as an engineer in sugar plantations and moved to New York City in the 1940s.
In 1960, she was cast as Mistress Shafer in the episode "The Captain"s Dilemma" of the Columbia Broadcasting System military sitcom/drama series, Hennesey, starring Jackie Cooper as a United States Navy physician and Abby Dalton as nurse Martha Hale. Between 1962-1966 Wyllie made four guest appearances on Perry Mason.
Her most substantial role of these was as Minerva Stone in the episode, "The Case of the Nebulous Nephew" (1963).
She also played Marguerite Keith the owner of a home in the path of a road in the 1964 episode "The Case of the Ruinous Road". In the 1963-1964 season, Wyllie had a recurring role as Mistress
Kissel in eighteen episodes of American Broadcasting Company"s family western series, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, starring child actor Kurt Russell in the title role. In nine episodes, four of The Osmonds were cast as the singing sons of the Kissel family, all with given names of books of the Old Testament, Micah, Deuteronomy, Lamentations, and Leviticus.
She played the first-ever villain in Star Trek, the Talosian "Keeper" in the pilot episode, "The Cage" (1964).
Not broadcast in its original form for many years, this material was used in the two-parter, "The Menagerie" (1966). She also played several different characters on both Golden Girls and Designing Women. Wyllie died in 2002, at the age of eighty-four in Glendale, California, from heart failure.