[1] Nash was born in Flint, Michigan, and attended the University of Arizona with the intention of pursuing medicine as her chosen career.

[1] However, her professional career path changed when she traveled to Los Angeles with her mother while attending Arizona.

[1] Nash appeared in just one other film during her career, the 1951 science fiction adventure Unknown World,[1] in which she portrayed a doctor.

There Nash worked as a casting director, specializing specifically in films shot in the region surrounding Oroville.

[1] Her casting credits included The Great Smokey Roadblock, The Klansman and The Outlaw Josey Wales.