Died 8 November 2002 | ||
Norma Lee Clark (died 8 November 2002) was an American actress and author of romance novels who worked for over 30 years as the private secretary and assistant to filmmaker Woody Allen.
Biography
Clark, born in Jefferson City or Joplin, Missouri, began her acting career in with the Pittsburgh Children's Theater and also worked at the Rochester Arena Theater before moving to New York City in the late 1940s. She moved there to take the female lead in Captain Video and His Video Rangers, a Buck Rogers television series that ran from 1949 to 1955.
During her decades as Woody Allen's assistant, she wrote 15 novels, including The Infamous Rake, The Daring Duchess, and The Impulsive Miss Pymbroke. The "most popular" of her novels was Lady Jane. She sometimes published under the name Megan O'Connor.
She was married to lighting designer David Clark; the couple later divorced. Afterwards, she remarried to Dimitri Vassilopoulos, and they had two daughters, Megan Clark and Emily Carvajal.