After a youthful career in the New York City Ballet under the guidance
of the famed dance-master
George Balanchine, Elaine Giftos starred on Broadway,
before moving to Hollywood to act in movies and on TV. She has
co-starred with
Barbra Streisand and
Jack Nicholson, with
Woody Allen and
Gene Wilder, and with
Burt Reynolds, among other major stars, in motion pictures. She has starred
in over fifty TV series, such as Emmy-winners
Ally McBeal (1997),
Magnum, P.I. (1980),
Murder, She Wrote (1984),
Three's Company (1976), and the sci-fi cult hit
War of the Worlds (1988), as well as starring
in many award-winning movies for television. She stars with
Edward Asner and
Majel Barrett in the first original made-for-the-Net Science Fiction
cyberseries,
Mars and Beyond (2000), on the Cyber Sci-Fi Network.