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Brett Somers on July 11, 1924, in New Brunswick, CanadaBrett Somers is a very tall (5'10") actress, singer and comedienne, who was a regular on the 1970s CBS game show

She was married to actor Jack Klugman from 1953 until 1974, having three children together: Adam, David, and daughter Leslie. She played the role of the divorced wife of Oscar Madison (who was played by Klugman) on the ABC sitcom television series in the early 1970s. They split during the run of the series and there were reports that although they had separated, they had never officially divorced (largely because Klugman was quoted as saying that he refused to divorce Somers so he would never make the same mistake again), although it now appears that they did, in fact, divorce. Later, Brett Somers played "Siress Belloby" on the Sci-Fi series Battlestar Galactica.

On an episode of CBS' reunion" with Betty White and Charles Nelson Reilly, Somers denied rumors that she was battling cancer. However, it had been reported that she had indeed battled and beaten breast cancer.

She became a U.S. citizen after many decades of living in the U.S., and resides in Connecticut.