Actress. The wife of the actor Walter Matthau for 41 years. She met him on Broadway when they appeared in “Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?” in the 1950s. She was also a successful writer, penning her autobiography “Among the Porcupines” and later wrote a well-received novel “The Secret in the Daisy”. Her daughter from her first marriage to actor/writer William Saroyan, actress Lucy Saroyan, died in April 2003. She died from a brain aneurysm in New York. (bio by: Teresa L. Watson)  Family links:  Spouses:  William Saroyan (1908 – 1981)  Walter Matthau (1920 – 2000)*  Children:  Lucy Saroyan (1946 – 2003)* *Calculated relationship