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Ann Turkel
American actress and former model From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ann Turkel is an American actress and former model, known for her collaborations with, and marriage to, actor Richard Harris.
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Early life
Born into a Jewish middle-class family and raised in Manhattan, Turkel had, by age 16, studied with both Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse and Philip Burton at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy.[1][a]
Career
In the late 1960s, she was photographed for American Vogue. Patrick Lichfield captured images of her on location in the United Kingdom, the Bahamas, and Italy during the early 1970s, and included them in his 1981 book The Most Beautiful Women.[4]
After a brief appearance in the film Paper Lion (1968), her first major role was in the 1974 film, 99 and 44/100% Dead starring her future husband Richard Harris, and they acted together in The Cassandra Crossing (1976), Golden Rendezvous (1977) and Ravagers (1979).
She portrayed comic strip heroine Modesty Blaise in a 1982 TV pilot.
Her other movie roles included Portrait of a Hitman (1979), with Jack Palance, and Humanoids from the Deep (1980), Deep Space (1988) and The Fear (1995). She also played the role of modeling agent and immortal Kristen in "Chivalry", a season four episode of Highlander: The Series.
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Personal life
Turkel and Harris married in 1974 in Beverly Hills.[5] They were divorced in 1982. Despite their divorce, she and Harris remained good friends.[6][7]
Filmography
Film
Television
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Notes
- Although the cited source, Cliff Goodwin's Richard Harris biography, specifies "the Musical Theater Academy" as one of the two schools attended by Turkel, no such institution appears to have existed at this time, whereas the similarly named American Musical and Dramatic Academy was, in fact, co-founded and—until his retirement—directed by one of the two named teachers, Philip Burton.[2] (Similarly, the other named school, the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, was—aside from one four-year stretch—headed by the other named teacher, Sanford Meisner, for more than half a century.)[3]
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