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Joanna Pettet was born Joanna Jane Salmon on
November 16, 1942 in London, England. Her father,
Harold Nigel Edgerton Salmon, was a British RAF
pilot killed in the war. Her mother remarried and
settled in Canada, where young Joanna was adopted
by her stepfather and assumed "Pettet" as her last
name.  

The talented, blonde Pettet got her start on
Broadway in such plays as Take Her, She's Mine,
The Chinese Prime Minister and Poor Richard with
Alan Bates and Gene Hackman before she was
discovered by director Sidney Lumet for his
sumptuous 1966 film adaptation of Mary McCarthy's
novel, The Group. The success of that film
launched a film career that included roles in
Night of the General (1967), the James Bond spoof
Casino Royale (1967), Blue (1968) with Terence
Stamp, and the Victorian period comedy The Best
House in London (1969). During that time, she
married American actor Alex Cord and gave birth to
a son in 1968. (1)

Her feature film appearance became sporadic in the
1970s, but Pettet re-emerged as the star of over a
dozen made-for-television movies during that
decade, including The Delphi Bureau (1972), The
Weekend Nun (1972), Pioneer Woman (1973), A Cry in
the Wilderness (1974), The Desperate Miles (1975),
The Hancocks (1976), Sex and the Married Woman
(1977), and The Return of Frank Cannon (1980). She
also guest-starred four times on the classic Rod
Serling anthology series Night Gallery, and was a
frequent visitor of The Love Boat, Fantasy Island
and, finally, Knots Landing. Pettet's career
slowed down in the mid-1980s and by 1990 she had
quietly retired from acting. (2)

Footnotes:
(1)    The Internet Movie Database
(2)    The Internet Movie Database