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Nancy Malone (19 March 19358 May 2014; age 79) was an actress, producer and director who directed the Star Trek: Voyager third and fourth season episodes "Coda" and "Message in a Bottle".

Born in Queens Village, Long Island, New York, Malone started acting at the age of seven and began appearing on Broadway at fifteen. She studied at the Actor's Studio under Stella Adler.

In the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, she appeared in guest roles in several television series, including Route 66 (with Nehemiah Persoff), Dr. Kildare (with Jud Taylor, Lee Meriwether, and Victor Tayback), The Outer Limits (with Theo Marcuse, Jack Perkins, and the voice of Robert C. Johnson, directed by Gerd Oswald), The Twilight Zone, The Fugitive (with Parley Baer and Arthur Tovey, directed by John Erman), Bonanza (directed by Gerd Oswald), The Andy Griffith Show (with George Sawaya), Dan August (with Ned Romero, Arell Blanton, and Glenn R. Wilder), and The Rockford Files (with Patricia Smith and Marc Alaimo).

Between 1960 and 1963, she co-starred as Libby Kingston in 51 episodes of the police procedural series Naked City (with Charles Dierkop, Max Kleven, and narrated by Lawrence Dobkin).

From the 1970s onward, Malone turned to producing and directing. In 1976, she became the first female vice-president of television at 20th Century Fox.

Her directorial credits include fifteen episodes of Dynasty (starring Joan Collins) and ten episodes of Melrose Place (starring Vanessa Williams) as well as series such as Cagney & Lacey (with Stanley Kamel), Beverly Hills, 90210, Picket Fences (with Ray Walston), Touched by an Angel, Dawson's Creek (with Obi Ndefo and Harve Presnell), and Judging Amy (with René Auberjonois and Chris Sarandon).

She won an Emmy Award for producing the program Bob Hope: The First 90 Years (1993) and was nominated for Emmy Awards for directing episodes of Sisters and The Trials of Rosie O'Neill.

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