A likable character player and occasional lead, primarily on stage and TV, Wedgeworth has a number of feature film roles to her credit. With her whispery voice, mature sensuality, and striking china-blue eyes, she has most typically played semi-comic vamps, best friends and "dumb brunettes".The Texas native (a school chum of Jayne Mansfield) moved to New York in the 1950s to study acting and spent the next decade working steadily, making her stage debut in "The Crucible" in 1958. Finding steady employment in daytime soaps, Wedgeworth appeared on "The Edge of Night" (CBS) and the NBC dramas
