Nancy Giles

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|alma_mater=Oberlin College

|occupation=Commentator, actress

|years_active=1986–present

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Nancy Giles is an American actress and commentator,{{cite web|publisher=NPR|title=Starbucks Campaign Already Inspiring Awkward Conversations About Race|date=March 18, 2015|author=Chow, Kat|url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2015/03/18/393870217/starbucks-campaign-already-inspiring-awkward-conversations-about-race}} perhaps best known for her appearances in the series China Beach and on CBS News Sunday Morning.

Early life

Nancy Giles is a graduate of Oberlin College.{{cite web|author=Holmes, Meredith|url=http://www.oberlin.edu/alummag/spring2010/features/giles.html|title=Nancy Giles: Sunday Morning Sage|magazine=Oberlin Alumni Magazine|publisher=Oberlin College|date=Spring 2010}}

Career

Giles was a member of the Second City Touring Company in 1984. She is a writer and contributor to CBS News Sunday Morning. She was the announcer and co-host of Fox After Breakfast.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/team/nancy-giles/|title=Nancy Giles|date=June 6, 2011|publisher=CBS News|language=en|access-date=February 4, 2019}}

She starred in two ABC television series, playing Private Frankie Bunsen for three seasons on China Beach and hostile waitress Connie Morris on the sitcom Delta. She had guest roles on shows including The Jury, L.A. Law, Spin City, Law & Order, Dream On, and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. She appeared in the 1985 Broadway production of the musical Mayor.{{Cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/person/nancy-giles-vault-0000049099|title=Nancy Giles|website=Playbill|language=en|access-date=2019-02-04}}

Giles and her CBS colleague, correspondent Erin Moriarty, have collaborated on two public-affairs radio series under the Giles and Moriarty banner, one for WPHT in Philadelphia and another for Greenstone Media. Both shows were produced at the facilities of the CBS Radio Network.

Giles gave the commencement address for the Ramapo College's graduating class of 2007 and Grinnell College's graduating class of 2014.{{Cite web|url=https://www.grinnell.edu/news/nancy-giles-doctor-humane-letters|title=Nancy Giles, Doctor of Humane Letters {{!}} Grinnell College|publisher=Grinnell College|access-date=March 29, 2020}}

In 2017 Giles along with CBS News colleague Nancy Wyatt launched the popular podcast The Giles Files.

Personal life

As of March 2020, Giles lives in Weehawken, New Jersey. During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, she self-isolated to avoid infection, and produced and starred in "A brisk walk with Nancy Giles", which documented her walk around the town, in particular up the inclined block on which Weehawken High School is located, and up Boulevard East, across from which the view of the Manhattan skyline prompted her to reflect on her parents' emigration to the area 70 years earlier.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/video/a-brisk-walk-with-nancy-giles/|author=Giles, Nancy|title=A brisk walk with Nancy Giles|publisher=CBS News|date=March 28, 2020|access-date=March 29, 2020|archive-date=March 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200328213437/https://www.cbsnews.com/video/a-brisk-walk-with-nancy-giles/}}

Partial filmography

=Film=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes
1986 \| Off Beat \| Celestine \|
1988 \| Working Girl \| Petty Marsh Secretary \|
1997 \| States of Control \| Volker \|
2007 \| Joshua \| Betsy Polschek \|

class="wikitable sortable"

Year

! Title

! Role

! Notes

1986

| Off Beat

| Celestine

1988

| Working Girl

| Petty Marsh Secretary

1997

| States of Control

| Volker

2007

| Joshua

| Betsy Polschek

=Television=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes
1987 \| The Equalizer \| Bailiff \| Episode: "Suspicion of Innocence"
1988–1991 \| China Beach \| Private Franklin "Frankie" Bunsen \| 53 episodes
1992–1993 \| Delta \| Connie Morris \| 17 episodes
2000 \| PB&J Otter \| Anna "Aunt Nanner" Otter (voice) \| 2 episodes
2003 \| Hey Joel \| Z (voice) \| 4 episodes
2004 \| The Wrong Coast \| Various Celebrity Voices \| Unknown episodes
2004 \| Law & Order \| TV Reporter \| Episode: "Gov Love"

class="wikitable sortable"

Year

! Title

! Role

! Notes

1987

| The Equalizer

| Bailiff

| Episode: "Suspicion of Innocence"

1988–1991

| China Beach

| Private Franklin "Frankie" Bunsen

| 53 episodes

1992–1993

| Delta

| Connie Morris

| 17 episodes

2000

| PB&J Otter

| Anna "Aunt Nanner" Otter (voice)

| 2 episodes

2003

| Hey Joel

| Z (voice)

| 4 episodes

2004

| The Wrong Coast

| Various Celebrity Voices

| Unknown episodes

2004

| Law & Order

| TV Reporter

| Episode: "Gov Love"

=Videogames=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year ! Title ! Role
2000 \| Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles \| Adi Gallia
2001 \| Smuggler's Run 2: Hostile Territory \| Robot
2001 \| Grand Theft Auto III \| Pedestrian

class="wikitable sortable"

Year

! Title

! Role

2000

| Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles

| Adi Gallia

2001

| Smuggler's Run 2: Hostile Territory

| Robot

2001

| Grand Theft Auto III