Janette Lane Bradbury is an American actress and writer.
Biography
Lane Bradbury was born in Buckhead, Georgia. She studied ballet as a young girl. In the 1950s, she moved to New York City and was admitted to the Actors Studio.[1]
In the late 1960s, she moved with her husband Lou Antonio to Los Angeles, where she began a long career in television. In 1965, Bradbury and Antonio co-starred in an episode of Gunsmoke ("Outlaw's Woman"). She was in 1963's season three opener of The Fugitive titled "Wings of an Angel", playing Janet Kegler, a woman taken hostage.[7] She was most active in the 1970s, making guest appearances on shows such as The Rockford Files; The Mod Squad; Medical Center; Mannix; The Partridge Family; Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law; The Waltons and Kung Fu.[7][8] She was popular in repeat-appearances as Merry Florene on Gunsmoke.[9] She also appeared in season 12 episode 9 of Unsolved Mysteries in 2001 credited under the name Janette Bradbury. [10]
In 1965, Bradbury married actor and director Lou Antonio[15] and they had two daughters. The couple divorced in 1980. Their daughter Elkin Antoniou is a writer, director, and award-winning documentarian.[16]
She is the founder and artistic director of the Valkyrie Theater of Dance, Drama, and Film, a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to introduce at-risk teens to the theatrical arts.[1]
