Full Linda Harrison Biography Harrison was born in Berlin, Maryland. She is known for her role as Charlton Heston’s attractive female mate “Nova” in the 1968 film Planet of the Apes, and its 1970 sequel Beneath the Planet of the Apes. She also had a guest appearance in Tim Burton’s 2001 remake Planet of the Apes. She was married to the film producer Richard D. Zanuck from 1968 to 1978. She is also the first actress to play a live-action version of Wonder Woman, which she did in a failed 1967 pilot for a Wonder Woman television series.