Background
Claudette Nevins was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and grew up in Brooklyn, New New York She is a daughter of merchant Joseph Weintraub and garment worker Anna Lander, both of whom emigrated to America from small towns in Austria.
Claudette Nevins was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and grew up in Brooklyn, New New York She is a daughter of merchant Joseph Weintraub and garment worker Anna Lander, both of whom emigrated to America from small towns in Austria.
New York University.
Life and acting career Nevins is a graduate of the School of Performing Arts and a 1957 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of New York University with a degree in English. Nevins" first stage work in New York was on Broadway in The Wall (Millard Lampell"s adaptation of John Hersey"s novel about the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto) with George C. Scott. Subsequent New York stage appearances include Plaza Suite (Broadway) with George C. Scott and Maureen Stapleton, Danton"s Death (Lincoln Center), and In White America (off-Broadway) with Gloria Foster and Moses Gunn.
The National Company of The Great White Hope, in which she starred with Brock Peters, brought her to Los Angeles, after which she began working in television
Foreign two and a half years she was seen in the long-running daytime soap opera Love of Life playing Laurie Krakauer. Her guest star appearances include Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place, Judge Advocate General, Three"s Company, Lou Grant, Without a Trace, M*A*South*H, and many others
Her first film was the 1961 3D feature The Mask, which later became a cult classic. Her work in regional theaters includes the following: Arena Stage: Major Barbara, The Iceman Cometh, Ring Round the Moon, The Cherry Orchard.
Atlanta Repertory: King Arther, The Hostage, The Little Foxes, Major Barbara, The Homecoming, You Can"t Take lieutenant With You, Twelfth Night.
Los Angeles Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors. Louisiana Mirada: Blithe Spirit. Other stage appearances in Los Angeles include Passion Play (Taper), Isn"t it Romantic? (Pasadena), P.S. Your Cat is Dead (Westwood) and Philadelphia Story (Court).
In addition, she has extensive on-camera and voice-over commercial credits.
Formerly married to Elliot Nevins, Nevins is now married to real estate investor Benjamin L. Pick with whom she has two daughters, Jessica and Sabrina.
Nevins is a member of the Matrix Theatre Company, where she appeared in Alan Bennett"s Habeas Corpus, J. B. Priestley"s Dangerous Corner, Caryl Churchill"s Mad Forest, and The Water Children. Currently, she is a member of the Antaeus Company and with them has done staged readings of Noël Coward"s Hay Fever, O"Neill"s Long Day"s Journey into Night, and Shakespeare"s Richard III and King John.