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- Birth nameGerthaline Henry
- Ena Hartman was born on April 1, 1932 in Moscow, Arkansas, USA. She was an actress, known for Airport (1970), Terminal Island (1973) and Dan August (1970). She died on April 16, 2025 in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Was named "Mayor" of Universal City in 1968 when she was 33. She succeeded another Universal contract performer, Eileen Wesson. She was the first black woman to be so named.
- She dropped out of high school to open a restaurant. She worked as both cook and waitress in order to earn enough money to embark on a modelling career in New York. She was eventually discovered by a photographer in the lobby of a modeling agency that had just rejected her.
- The daughter of sharecroppers, she was initially raised by her grandparents. Aged thirteen, she moved to Buffalo, New York, to live with her mother.
- Studied drama with Josh Shelley and Lloyd Richards.
- Has a son Doug.
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