Deanna Lund was an American film and television actress born on May 30, 1937, in Oak Park, Illinois. She was the daughter of attorney Arthur Lund, who served in the Illinois legislature, and her family moved to Daytona Beach, Florida, when she was eight years old.

Deanna Lund attended Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, where she studied drama but dropped out to marry her high school sweetheart, Wilbur Owen Upson. They had two children but divorced after four years. Before becoming an actress, she attended modeling school and worked as a secretary and a weather person on television.

Her early career included minor roles in the 1960s spy film parodies "Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine" (1965) and "Dimension 5" (1966), as well as the horror film "Sting of Death" (1965), the beach film "Out of Sight" (1966), and the western "Johnny Tiger" (1966).

She appeared as a lesbian stripper in the 1967 Frank Sinatra movie "Tony Rome," but was so embarrassed by the role that she had her name removed from the credits. Her performance was favorably received and led to a starring role in Irwin Allen's television series "Land of the Giants," where she played Valerie Ames Scott.

After "Land of the Giants" was canceled, she married co-star Don Matheson, but they divorced in the late 1970s. Their daughter, Michele Matheson, is also an actress.

Her later films included the Jerry Lewis comedy "Hardly Working" (1980), "Stick" (1985) starring Burt Reynolds, and horror movies such as "Elves" (1989), "Witch Story" (1989), and "Transylvania Twist" (1989).

In 1995, Deanna Lund dated talk show host Larry King and got engaged to him after five weeks, but the relationship ended before they could be married. She passed away on June 22, 2018, at her home in Century City, California, from pancreatic cancer, aged 81.