American actress born in 1935 who played Nona, the ambitious Kanutu wife of Tyree, in the second-season Original Series episode A Private Little War.
Nancy Kovack is an American actress, born in 1935, who played Medea in Jason and the Argonauts (1963) and made guest appearances in many 1960s series, including Batman and Bewitched.
In A Private Little War she played Nona, a Kanutu healer married to Tyree, the peaceful leader of the hill people. Nona saves Kirk from the poison of a mugato bite with a mahko root ritual and afterwards presses both men to bring her tribe superior weapons. She steals Kirk's phaser to bargain with the Klingon-armed villagers and is killed by them.
Kovack retired from acting in the 1970s.