Nancy Giles

Nancy Giles is an American actress and commentator, perhaps best known for her appearances in the series China Beach and on CBS News Sunday Morning.

Early life Nancy Giles is a 1981 graduate of Oberlin College.

Career Giles was a member of the Second City Touring Company in 1984. She is a writer and contributor to CBS News Sunday Morning. She was the announcer and co-host of Fox After Breakfast.

She starred in two ABC television series, playing Private Frankie Bunsen for three seasons on China Beach and hostile waitress Connie Morris on the sitcom Delta. She had guest roles on shows including The Jury, L.A. Law, Spin City, Law & Order, Dream On, and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. She appeared in the 1985 Broadway production of the musical Mayor.

Giles and her CBS colleague, correspondent Erin Moriarty, have collaborated on two public-affairs radio series under the Giles and Moriarty banner, one for WPHT in Philadelphia and another for Greenstone Media. Both shows were produced at the facilities of the CBS Radio Network.

Giles gave the commencement address for the Ramapo College's graduating class of 2007 and Grinnell College's graduating class of 2014.

In 2017, Giles, along with CBS News colleague Nancy Wyatt, launched the popular podcast The Giles Files.

Personal life As of March 2020, Giles lives in Weehawken, New Jersey. During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, she self-isolated to avoid infection, and produced and starred in "A brisk walk with Nancy Giles", which documented her walk around the town, in particular up the inclined block on which Weehawken High School is located, and up Boulevard East, across from which the view of the Manhattan skyline prompted her to reflect on her parents' emigration to the area 70 years earlier.

Partial filmography

Film Year Title Role Notes 1986 Off Beat Celestine 1988 Working Girl Petty Marsh Secretary 1997 States of Control Volker 2007 Joshua Betsy Polschek

Television Year Title Role Notes 1987 The Equalizer Bailiff Episode: "Suspicion of Innocence" 1988–1991 China Beach Private Franklin "Frankie" Bunsen 53 episodes 1992–1993 Delta Connie Morris 17 episodes 2000 PB&J Otter Anna "Aunt Nanner" Otter (voice) 2 episodes 2003 Hey Joel Z (voice) 4 episodes 2004 The Wrong Coast Wife, Casting Director (voices) Episode: "The Broken Teleprompter" 2004 Law & Order Claudia Gaines Episode: "Gov Love"

Videogames Year Title Role 2000 Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles Adi Gallia 2001 Smuggler's Run 2: Hostile Territory Robot 2001 Grand Theft Auto III Pedestrian