Portrayed "Sarah Tucker" in Cool Whip Commercials of the 1970s.
Best remembered as portraying Sister Jacqueline on the television show
The Flying Nun (1967).
Stepped in for Angela Lansbury to portray Mrs. Lovett in the original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd in 1979 when she went on vacation.
Started her professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, as a cooking expert on radio and with repertory companies in musicals. She later had her own 'agony aunt' radio show, "Ask Miss Wells".
After graduation, she worked in a bank as a typist and a mail page.