Shera Danese is an American actress and the widow of actor Peter Falk, the star of Columbo.
[3] Her acting career began in 1975 playing the part of Kitty in an episode of the TV series Medical Story (credited as Sherry Danese).
In one of her few movie roles, Danese starred with Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay in Risky Business (1983), playing a prostitute named Vicki.
Danese met Peter Falk on the set of the movie Mikey and Nicky[7] and became his second wife on December 7, 1977.
They were married for 33 years until Falk's death on June 23, 2011, at age 83 from complications of Alzheimer's disease and pneumonia.