After a youthful career in the New York City Ballet under the guidance of the famed dance-master George Balanchine, Elaine Giftos starred on Broadway, before moving to Hollywood to act in movies and on TV. She has co-starred with Barbra Streisand and Jack Nicholson, with Woody Allen and Gene Wilder, and with Burt Reynolds, among other major stars, in motion pictures. She has starred in over fifty TV series, such as Emmy-winners Ally McBeal (1997), Magnum, P.I. (1980), Murder, She Wrote (1984), Three's Company (1976), and the sci-fi cult hit War of the Worlds (1988), as well as starring in many award-winning movies for television. She stars with Edward Asner and Majel Barrett in the first original made-for-the-Net Science Fiction cyberseries, Mars and Beyond (2000), on the Cyber Sci-Fi Network.