The famous Joan Hotchkis was an American stage, screen, and television actress, writer, and performance artist. A lifetime member of the Actors Studio and the Dramatists Guild, Hotchkis is best known for playing Dr. Nancy Cunningham for several seasons on The Odd Couple.
From the 1950s through the 1990s, Hotchkis played many roles in television, film, and theater (summer stock and Broadway).
She was featured in Broadway productions of It’s a Bird It’s a Plane It’s Superman (Philadelphia previews), Advise and Consent and Write Me A Murder before playing Myra on the soap opera The Secret Storm for several years in the early 1960s. In 1967, she moved back to Los Angeles and worked steadily in television through the 1970s.
Most notably, Hotchkis played Dr. Nancy Cunningham, sometime girlfriend of Oscar Madison on the television version of The Odd Couple; Ellen in the Emmy-winning series My World and Welcome to It, and co-starred on L.A.T.E.R. (1980).
Scene from The Odd Couple with (from left): Hotchkis and fellow actors Fred Beir, Jack Klugman, and Janis Hansen.
Hotchkis also made many guest appearances on TV shows such as Bewitched, St. Elsewhere, Lou Grant, Charlie’s Angels, Mannix, Marcus Welby, Barnaby Jones, and more. On the big screen, she co-starred as Mama Hartley in the feature film Ode to Billy Joe (1976).
Joan Hotchkis husband
Joan Hotchkis’s husband was Robert Foster, and the couple divorced in the year 1967.
Joan Hotchkis children
Joan Hotchkis has only one child.
Joan Hotchkis parents
Joan Hotchkis’s parents were Katherine Hotchkis, Preston Hotchkis
Joan Hotchkis siblings
Joan Hotchkis’s sibling’s names are not known to the media.
