Career
Talbot was a leading lady who spent the first decade or so of her career playing "slick chicks" and sharp-witted career girls, but is perhaps best known for her role as Marya, the "White Russian" spy in the 1960s sitcom Hogan"s Heroes, as well as Sheila Fine in the sitcom Soap. Born in New York City, Talbot began her acting career appearing as a model in the 1949 film lieutenant"s a Great Feeling. She was afforded a wealth of varied screen roles, from the love-starved switchboard operator in A Very Special Favor (1965) to the brassy Madame Esther in Buck and the Preacher (1972).
(1962), Girl Happy (1965), The Day of the Locust (1975), Serial (1980), Chained Heat (1983), Fraternity Vacation (1985), and Puppet Master II (1991).
Talbot has been either the star or co-star of several other series, including Manitoba Against Crime, Bourbon Street Beat (four episodes as Lusti Weather), The Secret Storm, and Supertrain, while guest-starring on others Talbot also had long-running roles in Search for Tomorrow and General Hospital.
In 1971, Talbot was cast in the pilot episode of the Columbia Broadcasting System sitcom Funny Face starring actress-comedienne Sandy Duncan. The original premise of the show had Duncan playing Sandy Stockton, a young University of California, Los Angeles student from Illinois majoring in education and making ends meet by working part-time as an actress in television commercials for the Prescott Advertising Agency.
Talbot played Sandy"s agent, Maggie Prescott.
Shortly after filming the pilot, Columbia Broadcasting System picked up the program for the fall of 1971, but slightly revised the format, as a result of which Talbot was dropped from the cast. Talbot"s most recent acting role was in 1997, when she voiced the character of Anastasia Hardy, the businesswoman mother of Felicia Hardy, the Black Cat, in the animated series Spider-Manitoba