Bartlett and husband, actor William Daniels, won Emmys in 1986 for their portrayals of another married couple, Dr. and Mrs. Mark Craig, on the cult TV series "St. Elsewhere" (1982).
Her first child with actor William Daniels--whom she had met while attending Northwestern University--was a son they named William Daniels Jr., but he died shortly after birth in 1961.
In the fall of 2000, she was an honoree at her high school, Moline High School, in their Hall of Honor. Her plaque sits in a viewing window in the auditourium lobby at Moline High in Moline, Illinois.
On "Boy Meets World" (1993), she had a recurring role as the dean of the college that Cory and his friends attended. Her real-life husband, William Daniels, played Cory's beloved principal who followed them there and accepted a professorship. Bartlett and Daniels married each other on the show after their characters met each other, just as they have been in real life.
Plays the wife of real life husband William Daniels on both Boy Meets World and Touched by an Angel.
Raised in Moline, Illinois (USA)