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Ivy Bethune (1 June 191819 July 2019; age 101) was the actress who played Duana in the Star Trek: The Next Generation first season episode "When The Bough Breaks".

Bethune was probably best known for her role as Ma Peabody in Back to the Future (1985, starring Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson and Thomas F. Wilson, with Sachi Parker and Jeff O'Haco). She was also known for her regular role as Miss Tuttle on Father Murphy alongside Warren Munson and Charles Cooper and her 1987 recurring role as Abigail on General Hospital.

She mostly worked in the theatre and on television during her career. She can be seen in episodes of series such as The Outer Limits (1964, with Constance Towers and directed by Gerd Oswald), Perry Mason (1964), Mannix (1969, with Booth Colman), Kung Fu (1972, with Keye Luke, Ken Lynch, Bob Hoy, and Max Wagner), Little House on the Prairie (1975, with Bill Quinn), Lou Grant (1977), Charlie's Angels (1977, with Joshua Gallegos), The Waltons (1977, directed by Larry Dobkin), Barney Miller (1978, with James Gregory), CHiPs (1983, with Robert Pine and Lou Wagner), The Flash (1991), and Who's the Boss (1991).

She was born Ivy Vigder in a Russian-Jewish family in Sevastopol, Crimea. She married (and widowed) twice and had one child, ballet dancer Zina Bethune, who died in a hit-and-run accident in 2012.

At the time of her passing, Bethune was the second oldest living female Star Trek performer after Marsha Hunt, and the third oldest overall after Hunt and Norman Lloyd. She was only the eighth Star Trek performer to reach the age of 100, following Viola Stimpson, Ellen Albertini Dow, Olaf Pooley, Shep Houghton, Dick Cherney, and the aforementioned Lloyd and Hunt.

She died of natural causes at the Motion Picture Home in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California. [1]

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