Nancy Coleman

Coleman was born December 30, 1912 in Everett, Washington. Her father was Charles Sumner Coleman, editor of The Herald, and her mother was "an accomplished violinist." The family lived in Everett, Washington, where she graduated with honors from Everett High School.

She attended the University of Washington in Seattle where she majored in English and was a member of the Alpha Lambda chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta. After graduating, she was accepted at Columbia University's Teacher's College in New York. She attended the university, but dropped out, relocating to San Francisco, California, where she worked as an elevator operator of a department store.

Coleman's Broadway credits include Liberty Jones (1941), The Sacred Flame (1952), and The Desperate Hours (1955).

Memorable roles include playing the mistress to a Nazi (played by Helmut Dantine) in Edge of Darkness and co-starring with Paul Henreid in In Our Time. In the 1950s, Coleman began making guest appearances on television. She also played Anne Brontë in the film Devotion (1946) opposite Olivia de Havilland and Ida Lupino.

Coleman was married to Whitney Bolton, a publicity director. She gave birth to twin girls July 13, 1944.