Jo Ann Pflug
American film and television actress
Jo Ann Pflug (born May 2, 1940) is a retired American film and television actress.
Early life and education
Pflug was born to J. Lynn and Kelly Pflug. She was raised in Winter Park, Florida, where her father was elected mayor in 1958 and she graduated from Winter Park High School.
Pflug attended the University of Miami, where she received her BA in broadcasting and her minor in American history.
Career
While at the University of Miami, Pflug hosted a weekly radio show called "The Magic Carpet", where she was the storyteller. Following that, for four years she hosted a weekly live interview talk show called Montage. Her background in interviewing led her to be the first woman to have a live weekly TV talk show in the late 1960s in Los Angeles on KHJ-TV, channel 9. Her first screen credit was in Cyborg 2087, released in 1966. She was also the voice of Invisible Girl in the 1967 animated version of The Fantastic Four.
Pflug's first major role was as U.S. Army nurse Lt.
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