Karen Steele (March 20, 1931 – March 12, 1988) was an American actress and model with more than 60 roles in film and television. Her most famous roles include starring as Virginia in Marty, as Mrs Lane in Ride Lonesome, and as Eve McHuron in the Star Trek episode "Mudd's Women". She appeared in one episode of Hogan's Heroes, The Big Dish, as Lady Valerie Stanford.
She died from cancer on March 12, 1988, aged 56, at the Kingman Regional Medical Center in Kingman, Arizona, two weeks before her 57th birthday.