Constance Towers

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Constance Towers (b. 20 May 1933 in Whitefish, Montana) is an American singer and actress mostly known for playing tough girls in movies of the end of Samuel Fuller's U.S. career, such as Shock Corridor or The Naked Kiss.

She is also noted for her roles in soap operas. She has appeared on Love is a Many Splendored Thing playing Marion Hiller, the wheelchair-bound wife of Dr. Sanford Hiller; Capitol (as one of the show's matriarchs, kindly Clarissa McCandless); and occasionally plays the villainess Helena Cassadine on General Hospital.

She played Anna beside Yul Brynner in "The King and I" in his final tours with the musical before his death. Towers is married to actor and former ambassador to Mexico, John Gavin.

In 1993, she guest starred in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Forsaken".