Nancy Kelly

Nancy Kelly was an American actor in film, theater and television. While still in her teens, Kelly made two dozen movies between 1938 and 1946, including the classic Jesse James (1939) with Henry Fonda, and Stanley and Livingstone with Spencer Tracy.

She received a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the 1955 stage production of The Bad Seed and an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress for the 1956 film adaptation of the same project. Kelly then worked regularly in television until 1963 when she took over the role of Martha in the original Broadway production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for several months.