Early Life
Besch was born in Vienna, Austria, the daughter of theater actress Gusti Huber, who starred in German films during World War II and left Austria in the mid-1940s. Besch had a stepfather, Joseph Besch, a radio executive and former captain in the U.S. army. She had two sisters, Drea and Christina, and a brother, Andrew. She grew up in Mount Kisco, New York, and attended Mount Kisco elementary and junior high schools. While she was attending Mount Kisco High School it consolidated with adjacent northern Westchester County villages, forming Fox Lane High School, from which Besch graduated in 1959. She later moved to New York City. Besch was the mother of actress Samantha Mathis.
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