- After winning a beauty contest in her home state of Washington, she was invited to take a screen test in Hollywood, playing a number of decorative roles in late 1940s and 1950s films.
- Has two sons, Lee Siegel and Robert, from her marriage to Dr. Lee Siegel, 20th Century-Fox's staff physician known as the "doctor to the stars." She has four grandchildren.
- Began her career as a showgirl.
- Her son, Lee Siegel, is a professor at the University of Hawaii.
- Born Noreen Roth, she changed her last name to Nash at her agent's suggestion after appearing as J. Carrol Naish's daughter in The Southerner (1945).
- Stepgrandmother of James Whitmore III.
- Grandmother of Sebastian Siegel.
- She was a lifelong Democrat.
- Upon her death, she was immediately cremated, and her ashes scattered at sea in the Pacific Ocean.
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