Nancy Coleman (December 30, 1912 – January 18, 2000) was an American film, stage, television and radio actress.

She attended the university, but dropped out, moving to San Francisco, California,[7] where she worked as an elevator operator at a department store.

[8] Early in her career as an actress, Coleman portrayed Alice Hughes on the radio version of the soap opera Young Doctor Malone.

[10] Coleman's Broadway credits include Liberty Jones (1941), The Sacred Flame (1952), and The Desperate Hours (1955).

She also played Anne Brontë in the film Devotion (1946) opposite Olivia de Havilland and Ida Lupino.