Naomi Ruth Stevens[1] (November 29, 1925 – January 13, 2018[2]) was an American character actress of film and television from the 1950s through the 1980s.

[3] She appeared on a radio program on KNX in Los Angeles and was featured in Paramount Pictorials.

[1] Her most frequent characterizations were Italian, Jewish, Latin, or East European, and usually with a comic touch.

She appeared in many television series and in such feature films as Valley of the Dolls; Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell; and The Apartment (as Mrs. Dreyfuss, the supportive "Jewish mother" type to Shirley MacLaine's character, Fran Kubelik).

On old-time radio, Stevens portrayed Daphne Royce on Brenthouse[6]: 51-52  and Irene Barbour on One Man's Family.