Marguerite Louise Skliris-Alvarez (née Skliris; April 7, 1922 – June 23, 2023), known by her stage name Margia Dean (name is pronounced as Mar-juh)[1] was an American beauty queen and stage and screen actress of royal Greek descent,[1] who had a career in Hollywood films from the 1940s until the early 1960s, appearing in 30 starring roles and 20 bit parts.

[2] Marguerite Louise Skliris-Alvarez was born in Chicago to Evangelis Skliris, a lawyer, and his wife who studied in Paris, France.

[1] After her modelling, she was told that had she stayed in New York, she would have been on Broadway, but as her mum was working returned back to San Francisco, to finish her education.

[10] Dean starred in a 1958 Western, Ambush at Cimarron Pass, featuring a very young Clint Eastwood in one of his earliest film roles.

She also portrayed a trapeze artist in the 1961 circus tale The Big Show, which starred Esther Williams, Cliff Robertson, Nehemiah Persoff, David Nelson and Robert Vaughn.