Trish Van Devere (born March 9, 1941) is an American actress. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the 1972 film One Is a Lonely Number, and won a Genie Award for the 1979 film The Changeling. She is the widow of actor George C. Scott.Van Devere was born as Patricia Louise Dressel in Tenafly, New Jersey. She was married to the actor George C. Scott from September 4, 1972 until his death in 1999. A life member of the Actors Studio, Van Devere played the original Meredith Lord on
One Life to Live in 1968, as well as the lead in the 1972 film
One Is a Lonely Number, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe award. She appeared alongside Scott in
The Last Run (1971),
The Day of the Dolphin, and
The Savage Is Loose (both 1973, the latter film directed by Scott),
Beauty and the Beast (1976, for television),
Movie Movie (1978), and
The Changeling (1980).Van Devere performed frequently in both television and film until 1994, and appeared in television programs such as
Love Story,
The Fall Guy,
Hardcastle and McCormick,
Highway to Heaven and
Love Boat. She also starred alongside Peter Falk in a 1978 episode of the detective series
Columbo entitled
Make Me a Perfect Murder, in which she portrayed a TV producer who murders her ex-lover.
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