- Born
- Birth nameNancy Hamilton Alfaro
- Ames is the beautiful blonde folksinger and songwriter who is best known for being the That Was the Week That Was (1963) (aka TW3) girl, the only cast member to appear in all episodes during both seasons of the program. She recorded thirteen albums and co-wrote, with Mason Williams, the theme to The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967). Since 1972, she has lived in Houston, Texas, where she headlined her own television show, "The Nancy Ames Show", for five years on the NBC affiliate station. She and her husband, Danny Ward, run an event-planning company, Ward & Ames Special Events; and she and her daughter, Nancy Riviere, have a jewelry company, Alfaro Designs, that sells the jewelry she designs based on wine motifs.
- IMDb mini biography by: Gary Imhoff, gary@dcwatch.com
- SpousesDanny Ward(June 16, 1976 - present)Bertrand Jay Riviere(February 7, 1968 - September 29, 1975) (divorced, 1 child)Traian Boyer(March 22, 1964 - January 30, 1968) (divorced)Edward Louis Emes Jr.(April 12, 1958 - 1961) (divorced)
- ChildrenNancy Alfaro Riviere
- ParentsNancy Kerr HamiltonVictor Ricardo Alfaro
- RelativesRicardo Joaquin Alfaro II(Sibling)
- Her second husband was Romanian-born hypnotist Traian Boyer.
- Nancy Ames and Mason Williams also co-wrote "Cinderella Rockefella," an international pop hit in 1968.
- Ames was born in Washington, D.C., the granddaughter of Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro (1882-1971), who served as President of Panama from 1931-32.
- She is listed as the co-writer of the theme song to The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour with Mason Williams per Williams' own 1969 LP entitled Music by Mason Williams.
- She regularly appeared on the American version of the television series That Was the Week That Was. The TW3 Girl, as she was known, sang the show theme and special material.
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