Andrea Louisa Marcovicci (born November 18, 1948) is an American
actress and singer.Marcovicci was born in Manhattan, to Helen Stuart,
a singer, and Eugen Marcovicci, a physician and internist of Romanian
descent. Her father was 63 when she was born and died when she was 20.
In her teens she decided that she wanted to be a singer, but instead
majored in drama. In a 1972 interview, she looked back at this period
without enthusiasm:Marcovicci left school and started making her way
into show business as a singer, appearing on The Mike Douglas Show and
The Merv Griffin Show. As an actress, she debuted in commercials and
soon became better known as Dr. Betsy Chernak Taylor on the television
soap opera Love is a Many Splendored Thing from 1970â€"1973. She
appeared in the second pilot film for the television series Harry O,
titled Smile Jenny, You're Dead. She was nominated for a Golden Globe
award for the New Star of the Year in 1977 for the film, The Front
(1976).Marcovicci had a recurring role on Hill Street Blues. She has
appeared on Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Kojak, The Incredible Hulk,
Magnum, P.I., Cybill, Arli$$, Taxi, Voyagers! (as Cleopatra), Baretta,
Mannix, and Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers. She starred on both
Trapper John, M.D. and Berrenger's.
actress and singer.Marcovicci was born in Manhattan, to Helen Stuart,
a singer, and Eugen Marcovicci, a physician and internist of Romanian
descent. Her father was 63 when she was born and died when she was 20.
In her teens she decided that she wanted to be a singer, but instead
majored in drama. In a 1972 interview, she looked back at this period
without enthusiasm:Marcovicci left school and started making her way
into show business as a singer, appearing on The Mike Douglas Show and
The Merv Griffin Show. As an actress, she debuted in commercials and
soon became better known as Dr. Betsy Chernak Taylor on the television
soap opera Love is a Many Splendored Thing from 1970â€"1973. She
appeared in the second pilot film for the television series Harry O,
titled Smile Jenny, You're Dead. She was nominated for a Golden Globe
award for the New Star of the Year in 1977 for the film, The Front
(1976).Marcovicci had a recurring role on Hill Street Blues. She has
appeared on Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Kojak, The Incredible Hulk,
Magnum, P.I., Cybill, Arli$$, Taxi, Voyagers! (as Cleopatra), Baretta,
Mannix, and Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers. She starred on both
Trapper John, M.D. and Berrenger's.
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