MUMBAI: In a bizarre accident, actress, choreographer and dancer Zina Bethune was killed in the early morning hours last Sunday after she left her car along Forest Lawn Drive in Los Angeles to look after an injured animal but was struck by oncoming traffic. She suffered head injuries and died at the scene. Bethune was 66.

Bethune is best known for playing the girl with a past opposite Harvey Keitel in Martin Scorsese’s 1967 Catholic morality tale Who’s That Knocking at My Door.
 
Earlier, Bethune starred as a na?ve student nurse in the 1962-65 CBS primetime series The Doctors and the Nurses.

At age six, Zina Bethune began her dancing career at George Balanchine’s School of American Ballet and performed with the New York City Ballet, where she starred as Clara in the first televised The Nutcracker.