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| - Hyland was born Diana Gentner in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. (Some sources indicate Diane Gentner). She made her acting debut at age 19 (in 1955) in an episode of Robert Montgomery Presents. Over the next decade she played numerous guest and supporting roles in various television series, including Naked City, Happy Days, The Eleventh Hour, The Fugitive and The Twilight Zone, before being cast in a featured role in The Chase (1966) with Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda and Robert Redford.
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| - Hyland was born Diana Gentner in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. (Some sources indicate Diane Gentner). She made her acting debut at age 19 (in 1955) in an episode of Robert Montgomery Presents. Over the next decade she played numerous guest and supporting roles in various television series, including Naked City, Happy Days, The Eleventh Hour, The Fugitive and The Twilight Zone, before being cast in a featured role in The Chase (1966) with Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda and Robert Redford. In 1959 she originated the role of Heavenly Finley in Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth on Broadway with Geraldine Page and Paul Newman. Hyland was a regular on the NBC soap opera, Young Doctor Malone, from 1958 to 1963 where she played the role of Gig Houseman, wife of the younger Dr. Malone. She played a continuing role in the primetime soap opera, Peyton Place, from 1968 to 1969. She appeared in the television movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble in 1976 for which she won a posthumous Emmy Award. The following year she signed on to play the wife of Dick Van Patten's character in the series Eight is Enough. She appeared in only the first four episodes of the series prior to her death.
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