Linda Harrison

I'll be honest — Nova from Planet of the Apes is one of those roles that burns itself into your memory, and Linda Harrison is the reason why. She's from Berlin, Maryland of all places, a tiny shore town, and somehow she ended up at the center of one of the most iconic sci-fi films ever made, holding her own opposite Charlton Heston without speaking a single line. That takes a kind of presence you genuinely can't fake. The fact that she came back for Beneath the Planet of the Apes and then got a cameo in Tim Burton's 2001 remake tells you she was always part of the franchise's soul. Model-turned-actress-turned-producer — there's more going on with her than the spotlight ever gave her credit for.

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Name (English)

Linda Harrison

Name (Japanese)

リンダ・ハリソン

Reading

りんだ・はりそん

Born

July 26, 1945 (age 81)

Origin

Berlin, Maryland, United States

Occupation

model / television actor / film actor / film producer / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rooster

High school

Stephen Decatur High School

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%20Harrison
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AA%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272445

Tags

• Maryland
• model
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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