Nora Kovach was born on 13 June 1931 in Budapest, Hungary. She was married to Steve Farago, Istan Rabovsky and Tibor Szegezdy. She died on 18 January 2009 in Miami, Florida, USA.
She studied classical dance and ballet at the Budapest Opera Ballet School and in St. Petersburg, Russia (formerly Leningard, Soviet Union) at the Kirov School.