Nancy Berg

Nancy Berg (July 9, 1931 – February 4, 2022) was an American model and actress.

Berg was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, to Paul Axel Berg and Dorothy Esther ( Schanock) Berg. She moved with her family to Red Bank, New Jersey at age six. Her father was with the United States Coast Guard at Stations Sandy Hook and Monmouth Beach at the time. She attended Red Bank Catholic High School until 1948 when she moved to Detroit with her father who had divorced her mother and remarried. She began her career as a model and actress in Detroit and Chicago.

She was also the star and sole performer on a 1955 New York television program entitled Count Sheep which aired on WRCA-TV five nights a week from 1:00 to 1:05 a.m. ET. The nightgown-clad Miss Berg would appear, get into bed, perform a bit of business, such as read from Romeo and Juliet or eat grapes off a toy Ferris wheel, and then, in extreme close-up, whisper a good night to the camera and pretend to go to sleep as animated sheep jumped over a fence. Her manager stated, 'A lot of people watch it. God knows why.'" She earned $150 for each five-minute performance. She was also married to, and divorced from, Alan Elliott and Richard Praeger in the 1960s. She died on February 4, 2022, at the age of 90, in New York.

Filmography Fail-Safe (1964) as Ilsa Wolfe Thunder in Dixie (1964) as Karen Hallet Count Sheep with Nancy Berg (1955)