Andrea Darvi (born July 29, 1952, as Andrea Margolis), now known as Andrea Plate, is a social worker and author and a former child actress mainly in American television in the 1960s.

Her TV roles were nearly all in mainstream productions. A popular choice in casting, she was a familiar face on American television. Her career peaked in 1964 when she was 12 years old.

Acting career

The daughter of Samuel and Evelyn Margolis, she had her acting debut in the 1960 The Twilight Zone episode, "Night of the Meek". She appeared in again the following episode "Dust" two weeks later. She then appeared in episodes of 87th Precinct, Peter Gunn and The Untouchables, returning to the latter in another episode in 1962, followed by episodes of Bonanza, Pete and Gladys, Hawaiian Eye and Adventures in Paradise.

In 1963 she appeared on The Danny Thomas Show and starred in an episode of Death Valley Days alongside Gilbert Roland. In 1964 she appeared as “Amity”, the title character in the S9E27 offering “Owney Tupper Had A Daughter” on Gunsmoke. She appeared as Nezhmet in a 1966 episode of I Spy. She appeared in 4 episodes of the TV series Combat!, including one 1966 episode named after her character "Gitty". She appeared in the Disney movie Monkeys Go Home and as Greti Koska in Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain in 1966.^[1] Once a teen, she essentially outgrew her career as a "child" actress but made one final appearance in 1971 in The Night God Screamed.

Education

She holds three academic degrees: B.A. in English, UC Berkeley; MA in Journalism, USC; and MSW (Master of Social Work), UCLA.

Family

In 1979 she married veteran journalist Tom Plate, who later became a professor at UCLA and Loyola Marymount University). Tom Plate died in May of 2023, after 43 years of marriage. They have one child and two grandchildren.^{[citation needed]}

Post-acting career/published works

Darvi, a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in California, worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs for nearly 15 years (2003–2017).

She is a published author: ^[2] In 2019, she authored the internationally published Madness: In the Trenches of America's Troubled Department of Veterans Affairs (Marshall Cavendish Intl.)^{[3][citation needed]}

She currently teaches in the Sociology Department of Loyola Marymount University and is a Board Member of US Vets Initiative, America's largest nonprofit serving homeless veterans.