Chana Eden
Chana Messinger was born in Haifa to Rachel and Menachem Messinger, a pharmacist. She was educated at Haifa's French School Alliance and studied dancing in an English ballet company. After her graduation from the French school, she enrolled and briefly attended classes at a commercial college before her enlistment in the Israeli Navy during the 1948 Israeli independence war. She first arrived in the United States in 1953 to study film directing and cutting in Hollywood, and took the surname Eden. She became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1960. Eden made her debut in "Wind Across the Everglades" (1958) and appeared in 30 television series. Eden appeared as an Argentine girl in an episode of The Rifleman in 1958. She played a young Shoshone woman in the "Bonanza" episode "The Last Hunt" (1959), the title character's wife in the "Perry Mason" Season 4, Episode 7 "The Case of the Clumsy Clown" (1960), and an Italian partisan named Elena in Season 1, Episode 4 "Ninety-Eight Cents Man" of "The Gallant Men" (1962). Playing a Greek mail-order bride in a 1961 episode of "Have Gun - Will Travel", Eden turns in a lively performance along with Charles Bronson, George Kennedy, and the series's star, Richard Boone. Her only recurring role in television was featured in two "Adventures in Paradise" episodes, "The Color of Venom" and "The Death-Divers" (both 1960).
Career
After her debut in the 1958 film "Wind Across the Everglades", Eden appeared in guest roles in many American television series of the late 1950s and early 1960s.