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Morgan Brittany (born as Suzanne Cupito on December 5, 1951 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film and television actress.

Brittany will next be seen in UniGlobe Entertainment's cancer docu-drama titled 1 a Minute scheduled for release in 2010.^[1] The documentary is being made by Namrata Singh Gujral and will also feature cancer survivors Olivia Newton-John, Diahann Carroll, Melissa Etheridge, Mumtaz (actress) and Jaclyn Smith as well as William Baldwin, Daniel Baldwin and Priya Dutt, whose lives have been touched by cancer. The feature is narrated by Kelly McGillis. The film will also star Barbara Mori, Lisa Ray and Deepak Chopra.

Under her birth name, she appeared on TV in a 1960 episode of Lloyd Bridges's Sea Hunt; in the 1962 film Gypsy as "Baby" June, (June Havoc). She also appeared on Bridges's CBS anthology series The Lloyd Bridges Show. She appeared, under her birth name as well, in a 1967 episode of The Andy Griffith Show as "Mary Alice Carter", whom Opie Taylor (Ron Howard) asks out for his first date. She also appeared in the 1968 film, "Yours, Mine and Ours" portraying Louise Beardsley.

She began her career as a child in 1960 in an episode of the original Twilight Zone series ("Nightmare as a Child"). Although uncredited, Brittany appeared in the birthday party scene in the 1963 movie The Birds. In 1976 she portrayed Vivien Leigh in the biopic Gable and Lombard. She possibly is known best for her role in the 1980s primetime soap opera Dallas as "Katherine Wentworth", the scheming younger half-sister of Pamela Ewing (Victoria Principal) and Cliff Barnes (Ken Kercheval).

In November 1980, Morgan appeared in the Dukes of Hazzard episode titled "The Hazzardville Horror" as Mary Lou Pringle, an heiress to an Addams Family-like haunted house.

Brittany first appeared on Dallas during the 1981-1982 season in a recurring role which continued for several seasons. In the fall of 1984, her character was revealed as the attempted assassin of Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) in the resolution of the previous season's cliffhanger at which time she left the series. In 1985, she returned for a brief cameo appearance in that season's finale in which her character killed Bobby Ewing by running him over with her car, only to be killed herself. At the time, Brittany was pregnant in real-life, but her pregnancy was hidden by having her appear sitting in a car. In 1986, it was revealed that the entire previous year Dallas had just been a dream of Katherine's sister, Pam, which meant that Bobby was never killed and Katherine was still alive. Thus, in 1987, Brittany made another brief return to the show in which Katherine came to visit Pam in the hospital after a car accident. This was Brittany's last appearance on Dallas.

In 1984, Brittany starred in her own short-lived ABC drama series, Glitter, opposite David Birney, as "Kate Simpson", a reporter at an entertainment magazine. She has also guest starred on a number of other prime time shows, such as Married... with Children as Marilyn Beamis in episode Life's a Beach (1989), The Dukes of Hazzard, The Love Boat, Murder, She Wrote and Melrose Place, among others. In 2002, she had a small role in the film, The Biggest Fan.

Her brief appearance as Vivien Leigh is the climax of the made-for-TV movie Moviola: The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980).

She recently spoke out against the movie Hounddog (YouTube) and on the topic of the treatment of child actors in Hollywood.

References

External links

• Morgan Brittany at the Internet Movie Database
• Morgan Brittany at Allmovie