After Barbara Bain’s Cinnamon Carter left “Mission: Unattainable” following its third season, the crew of brokers wanted a brand new femme fatale. That is the place Lesley Ann Warren’s Dana Lambert got here in. Like Cinnamon, Dana used her magnificence to its fullest impact, however was additionally fairly younger within the present’s narrative, which made her appear weak and in want round any of her targets. Her youth was merely a smokescreen, although; Dana was an especially expert agent who pulled her weight fairly nicely with the remainder of the crew, and her solely actual weak point was her lack of bodily power.
Then credited merely as Lesley Warren, the actress appeared in “Mission: Unattainable” fairly early in her profession; she ended up receiving a Golden Globe nod for finest supporting actress for enjoying Dana. Warren’s profession actually took off from there: In 1982, she earned an Academy Award nomination for finest supporting actress because of her position as Norma Cassidy in Julie Andrews’ movie “Victor/Victoria,” and naturally, audiences to this present day know her from the cult basic “Clue,” the place she performed a pitch-perfect Miss Scarlet alongside an all-star forged that included Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, and Michael McKean. Warren continues to be fairly lively as a performer: in 2018, she appeared within the “Daredevil” sequence (initially for Netflix), and in 2021, she guest-starred within the procedural “All Rise.”