Altovise Joanne Gore was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and raised in Brooklyn, New York.

A life member of The Actors Studio,[3] Gore worked during the 1960s as a chorus-line dancer in various musical shows both in London and on Broadway.

[citation needed] In the 1970s and 1980s, she made a few guest appearances in major TV series such as Charlie's Angels and CHiPs and minor roles in films such as Welcome to Arrow Beach (1974), Kingdom of the Spiders (1977), Boardwalk (1979), and Can't Stop the Music (1980).

Both she and her husband, Sammy Davis Jr., were frequent panelists on the 1970s television game show Tattletales.

[1][2] She is interred in an unmarked grave at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, next to her husband.