Joanna Pettet

Joanna Jane Pettet ( Salmon; 16 November 1942 – 7 July 2026) was an English-Canadian actress. and Cecily J. Tremaine, who were married in Chelsea in 1940. Her father, a British Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot, was killed in the Second World War in 1943. After the war, her mother remarried and settled in Montréal, She also appeared on Broadway in The Chinese Prime Minister, and Poor Richard.

Beginning in 1964 with an episode of Route 66, she began making guest appearances in several US dramatic television series of the mid-sixties, including The Doctors, The Nurses, The Trials of O'Brien, The Fugitive, A Man Called Shenandoah, and Dr. Kildare.

She was cast in writer/producer Sidney Buchman's 1966 adaptation of Mary McCarthy's novel The Group. The success of that film launched a film career that included roles in The Night of the Generals (1967), as Mata Bond in the James Bond spoof Casino Royale (1967), Peter Yates's Robbery (1967) with Stanley Baker, Blue (1968) with Terence Stamp, and the Victorian period comedy The Best House in London (1969). was a guest on both Fantasy Island and The Love Boat (appearing three times on each series), and had a recurring role on Knots Landing in 1983 as Janet Baines, an LAPD homicide detective investigating the murder of singer Ciji Dunne (played by Lisa Hartman).

Through the 1970s and 1980s, Pettet made appearances on the television series Harry O, Banacek, McCloud, Mannix, Police Woman, Knight Rider, Tales of the Unexpected (the UK series) and Murder, She Wrote. In 1984, she appeared as herself in a James Bond tribute episode of The Fall Guy with ex-Bond girls Britt Ekland and Lana Wood.

Her final screen role was in the 1991 thriller Terror in Paradise, after which she retired from the screen, still in her 40s. ; the couple subsequently divorced in 1989. This event is illustrated in the fictional/alternate-reality 2019 film Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood, in which Pettet is portrayed by Rumer Willis.

Death Pettet died at Temecula Valley Hospital in Temecula, California, on July 7, 2026, 31 years after the death of her son.

Recognition Pettet won a Theatre World Award for 1964–1965 for her work in Poor Richard.

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