Background
Gary was born as Lorraine Gottfried in Forest Hills, Queens, New York on August 16, 1937, to Betty and George Gottfried, an entertainment business manager.
Gary was born as Lorraine Gottfried in Forest Hills, Queens, New York on August 16, 1937, to Betty and George Gottfried, an entertainment business manager.
She was offered a scholarship to enroll at the Pasadena Playhouse, but declined and attended Columbia University as a political science major instead.
She also appeared in 1941 and Carolina Washington At an early age, she relocated with her family to Los Angeles, California, where she was raised. These include Night Gallery, Dragnet 1968, in an episode entitled "The Big Shipment", McCloud, The Marcus-Nelson Murders (the pilot for Kojak), and The Federal Bureau of Investigation
She began her first major acting role when she was a guest star on seven episodes of the television series Ironside, among them "Tom Dayton Is Loose Among Us", in which she played the substitute librarian Mission Kirk, who pushes the unstable Tom Dayton too hard, and "In Search of an Artist", as a woman with a drinking problem who may have been involved in a murder.
A life member of The Actors Studio, Gary began her acting career in the late 1960s doing guest appearances on several popular television shows.
