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Roxane Berard (January 21, 1933 — December 31, 2019) was an American actress who was the leading lady in various episodes of thirty-four different American television series between 1958 and 1967.

One notable appearance was in 1964 when she played Ninette Rovel who murdered her husband Armand in the Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Fifty Millionth Frenchman".

Berard had a gamine quality similar to that of Audrey Hepburn, with whom she was inevitably and continuously compared, as they purportedly resembled each other, and Berard frequently worked with a French accent.

Early years

Roxane Berard was born in Belgium on January 21, 1933. Along with her parents and younger brother, she fled from the Nazis to France, Spain, and Portugal, before finally settling in the United States when she was 12.^[1]

Career

Television series in which she appeared included Rawhide, Colt .45, Maverick (in which she made two appearances with James Garner and one apiece with Roger Moore and Jack Kelly), 77 Sunset Strip with Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Zorro, The Deputy, Have Gun - Will Travel (3 episodes), Bronco, Bourbon Street Beat, Surfside Six, Tales of Wells Fargo, The Tab Hunter Show, Straightaway, Perry Mason, Father Knows Best, and Get Smart. Berard was also a San Diego, California-based mural painter.

Personal life and death

Berard was married three times:

Samuel F Bradley (September 4, 1985 – 19??; divorced)
Jack Travis Heller (April 23, 1960 – May 1, 1980; divorced), 3 children
William Dennis DeBerardinis (aka Willie Dennis; 1953 – March 15, 1960; divorced)

Roxane Berard died on December 31, 2019, at the age of 86.^[2]