Natalie Trundy

Natalie Trundy (born Natalie Trundy Campagna, August 5, 1940 – December 5, 2019) was an American stage, film, and television actress.

Early years Trundy (pronounced "Troon-dee") was born in Boston, Massachusetts, Her father was a wealthy insurance executive, and she had a younger sister named Beverly Marie Campagna. When she was young, her father's work resulted in the family moving to New York City, where she attended Marymount School of New York.

Stage Trundy performed on Broadway when she was 12 years old, earning the role of 15-year-old Nancy in A Girl Can Tell by convincingly (and unknown to the producers) acting older than her true age during the auditions.

Film As an actress, she starred in the 1962 film Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation. In May 1963, she was struck by a car, and suffered a ruptured disc in her back, disrupting the momentum of her acting career as she spent a year recovering in a back brace.

Trundy's second husband Arthur P. Jacobs produced films and television through his APJAC Productions. APJAC produced the original Planet of the Apes movie series. In the early 1970s, Trundy played the telepathic mutant Albina in Beneath the Planet of the Apes, the early 1970s human Dr. Stephanie Branton in Escape from the Planet of the Apes, and featured as the nearer-future chimpanzee Lisa, the mate of Caesar, in both Conquest of the Planet of the Apes and Battle for the Planet of the Apes. Trundy's last film was 1974's Huckleberry Finn, also produced by APJAC Productions.

Television Newspaper columnist Erskine Johnson once described Trundy as a "sort of electronic Shirley Temple who sparkled on TV between the ages of 11 and 16," adding that she appeared, uncredited, "in nearly 200 live New York TV shows" in those early days of television.

Personal life Trundy was married five times. In September 1959, 19-year-old Trundy married 22-year-old trust fund millionaire Charles Hirshon, but the marriage was annulled in 1960. Her second husband was movie producer Arthur P. Jacobs. Trundy had two children (born 1976 and 1977) during her six-year marriage to her third husband Carmine Roberto Foggia. She had a short marriage to Scott Cristle in the early 1980s and married Andres Lopez in 1985.

Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes1956 The Monte Carlo Story Jane Hinkley 1957 The Careless Years Emily 'Miley' Meredith 1960 Walk Like a Dragon Mrs. Susan Allen 1962 Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation Susan Carver 1970 Beneath the Planet of the Apes Albina 1971 Escape from the Planet of the Apes Dr. Stephanie Branton 1972 Conquest of the Planet of the Apes Lisa 1973 Battle for the Planet of the Apes 1974 Huckleberry Finn Mrs. Loftus

Selected television appearances The Twilight Zone (1963) (Season 4 Episode 3: "Valley of the Shadow") as Ellen Marshall Perry Mason (1963) (Season 6 Episode 20: "The Case of the Golden Oranges") as Sandra Keller The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963) (Season 1 Episode 25: "The Long Silence") as Jean Dekker Perry Mason (1964) (season 7, episode 29): "The Case of the Tandem Target" as Irma Hodge