Lisa Seagram

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Seagram was the daughter of Harry Browser, a New York City police detective. She worked as a graphic artist after graduating from college. Acting on a friend's suggestion, she began working as a model. After someone suggested that she "looked like an actor", she studied drama for three years, which led to a small role in Shadows (1959).{{cite book|last1=Lisanti|first1=Tom|title=Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood: Seventy-Five Profiles|date=2007|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476612416|pages=193–198|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ITClSVUV7voC&q=%22sultry+siren+with+impeccable+cheekbones%22&pg=PA193|accessdate=21 June 2017|language=en}} During the 1960s, she played numerous supporting roles, including appearances on television shows such as McHale's Navy, The Beverly Hillbillies, Perry Mason and Batman. She appeared in season 1, episode 11, of Bewitched as Sarah, a fellow witch Endora gets to test the fidelity of Darrin. She played the lead female role in the comedy film 2000 Years Later. She relocated for a time to Italy where she appeared in several local productions, most notably playing the lead role in the thriller film Yellow - Le Cugine (1969). The majority of the films she made in Italy were geared to Italian audiences and were never released in the United States.Tom Lisani, Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood: Seventy-Five Profiles, McFarland, 2015, page 195 It was while working in Italy that she met her husband, expatriate Canadian actor Marc Fiorini.

After retiring from acting, Seagram first sold commercial real estate. In the 1980s, she created Actors 2000, teaching acting in Hawaii. She later moved the school to Los Angeles.

Seagram died of dementia in Burbank, California on February 1, 2019, at the age of 82.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lisa-seagram-dead-actress-batman-beverly-hillbillies-was-82-1190950|title=Lisa Seagram, Actress on 'Batman' and 'The Beverly Hillbillies,' Dies at 82|magazine=The Hollywood Reporter|date=February 26, 2019}}

Seagram guest starred on American television sitcom McHale's Navy as the fictional movie star, singer, and dancer Rita Howard entertaining troops in the Pacific theater of WWII. She also guest starred on the sit-coms The Beverly Hillbillies, Bewitched Season 1 episode 11 "It Takes One to Know One" playing Sarah Baker, a rival witch trying to lure Darrin from Samantha as the gorgeous "Jasmine Girl," a seductive model for a perfume advertising campaign;{{Citation needed |date=July 2020}} as Robin Springer in Perry Mason season 9, episode 21, "The Case Of The Twice Told Twist", notable as being the only episode of the series filmed in color; Burke's Law S01E27 "Who Killed Who IV" and several other TV series in the 1960s such as Batman.{{Citation needed |date=July 2020}}

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