Barbara Billingsley (born December 22, 1915) is an American film, television an character actress, who in her five decades of television came to prominence in the 1950s as an everyday mother, June Cleaver, on Leave it to Beaver, and its sequel, The New Leave It to Beaver, two decades later. It was during that time she provided the voice of the unseen Nanny on Jim Henson's Muppet Babies.