Holly Palance

Holly Palance is a former American actress who later became a journalist. Born in Los Angeles, she moved to Europe as a child and later trained in London, acting in English theater from 1971, including at the Oxford Playhouse and in the West End. She is best known for playing the nanny in The Omen (1976), and she also appeared in the horror film The Comeback (1978). She had a leading part in the comedy The Best of Times (1986) alongside Robin Williams and Kurt Russell, her last theatrical film. She read as Lois Lane in Christopher Reeve's Superman screen test, made her Broadway debut in 1979 in Romantic Comedy, and from 1983 spent two seasons co-hosting Ripley's Believe it or Not! for television alongside her father. She then became a journalist, editing Buzz Magazine and, from 2004, running the Los Angeles Times's Distinction magazine.