Actress. She is remembered as an American actress of the 20th century. Born to René Mimieux and Maria Montemayor, she had a French and Mexican heritage, with two siblings. During her childhood, she attended Catholic schools. When she was a teenager, Hollywood talent scout Jim Byron suggested she become an actress, and with that she started her acting career that ran from 1956 until 1992. Besides acting, she studied modern dance, singing, and piano. She briefly studied archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles. During her 36 year career, she performed in some 50 television and film productions. Although she had a couple of earlier roles, her breakout role came in the 1960 MGM H.G. Wells film "The Time Machine" in the role of Weena. Some of the other film productions were the box-office-hit, "Where the Boys Are" in 1960; "The Light In The Piazza" and "Diamond Head" both in 1962; "Three in the Attic" in 1968; another box-office-hit, "Jackson County Jail" in 1976;"Skyjacked" in 1972; "The Black Hole" in 1979 and "Circle of Power" in 1981. Her first acting roles in television were in episodes of "Yancy Derringer" and "One Step Beyond" both in 1959. Coming out of retirement, her last television appearance was an Ivana-Trump-like character in the miniseries "Boss Lady" in 1992. She often had the role of a beautiful blond yet fragile and naïve character. She was nominated 3 times during her career for the Golden Globe Award: nominated for Best New Actress for her role in the 1960 film "Platinum High School", for her role of an epilepsy patient in two 1964 television episodes of "Dr. Kildare", and third, for her role in the 1970 to 1971 television series "Most Deadly Game." She was married three times: First, when she was seventeen, to Evan Harland Engber on December 19, 1959, but kept the marriage secret for her professional reasons; next to film director Stanley Donen from 1972 until their divorce in 1985; and then in 1986 until her death to Howard F. Ruby, millionaire chairman emeritus and founder of Oakwood Worldwide, an international real estate business. She had no children. When not acting, she had a position in real estate, immersed herself in archaeology, was a watercolor painter, and had business based on Haitian folk art. She passed away at her home in Los Angeles at the age of 80 of natural causes.