Jane Wyatt

Jane Wyatt
Wyatt from the trailer for Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Born	Jane Waddington Wyatt (1910-08-12)August 12, 1910 Mahwah, New Jersey, U.S.
Died	October 20, 2006(2006-10-20) (aged 96) Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting place	San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Los Angeles
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1934–1996
Spouse(s)	Edgar Bethune Ward (m. 1935; his death 2000)
Children	2

Jane Waddington Wyatt (August 12, 1910 – October 20, 2006) was an American actress. She starred in a number of Hollywood films, but likely is best known for her role as the housewife and mother Margaret Anderson on the CBS and NBC television comedy series, Father Knows Best, and as Amanda Grayson, the human mother of Spock on the science fiction television series Star Trek. Wyatt was a three-time Emmy Award-winner.

Jane Waddington Wyatt was born on August 12, 1910, in Mahwah, New Jersey, but raised in Manhattan. Her father, Christopher Billopp Wyatt, Jr., was a Wall Street investment banker, and her mother, the former Euphemia Van Rensselaer Waddington, was a drama critic for the Catholic World. Both of her parents were Roman Catholic converts.

Wyatt had two sisters and a brother.

One of her ancestors, Rufus King, was a signatory to the United States Constitution, a U.S. Senator and ambassador, and the Federalist candidate in the 1816 United States presidential election. Wyatt was a descendant, on her father's side, of British Royal Navy Captain Christopher Billopp, as well as a distant cousin of Eleanor Roosevelt and the poet Harry Crosby, through their shared descent from Philip Livingston, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.