Lee Meriwether

The role earned her two Golden Globe Award nominations in 1975 and 1976 and an Emmy Award nomination in 1977. In 2010 Lee Meriwether was once again reunited on screen with Hollywood veteran Bill Cobbs in No Limit Kids: Much Ado About Middle School; additionally Lee Meriwether voices President Winters in the video game Vanquish by Platinum Games.

She is perhaps best known for her role as Betty Jones Buddy Ebsen's secretary and daughter-in-law in the long-running 1970s crime drama Barnaby Jones. Meriwether had a recurring role as Ruth Martin on the daytime soap opera All My Children until the end of the series in September 2011. Lee Ann Meriwether (born May 27 1935) is an American actress former model and the winner of the 1955 Miss America pageant.