Actress and longtime Wilton resident Melisande Congdon-Doyle died Jan. 21 at the age of 82. She was born in Detroit and raised in Oxford, Conn.
After graduating from Smith College she moved to New York to study at the Juilliard School and worked as a receptionist to support herself. In 1956 she got to share the stage with Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews in the Broadway production of My Fair Lady.
After leaving the stage in 1965 Congdon-Doyle and began working in marketing, selling advertising for Vogue. She later worked at Revlon, where she met her first husband, Harry J. Doyle. They were married in 1971 maintained homes in New York and Wilton.
Congdon-Doyle also had her own landscape design company, Country Gardens. During the 1980s she became director of cosmetic and fragrance marketing at Harpers Bazaar.
She is survived by her second husband, Paul E. Forsman; her brother, James Congdon, her niece, nine step-children, 14 step-grandchildren and three step-great- grandchildren. She was predeceased by Harry Doyle in 1986.
Congdon-Doyle was a supporter of wildlife organizations and donations in her memory can be made to the National Resources Defense Council, Earthjustice, Environmental Defense, the National Audubon Society, Ocean Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fund.
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