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Kimberly Beck
American actress and model From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kimberly Beck is a former American actress, model and singer. She is best known for her role as Trish Jarvis in Joseph Zito's Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984). Her other film roles include Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie (1964), Luc Besson's The Big Blue (1988), George T. Miller's Frozen Assets (1992), and Roland Emmerich's Independence Day (1996).
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Kimberly Beck was born to the actress Cindy Robbins.[1] As a child, she appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie and television commercials for such products as Mattel's Barbie and Chatty dolls. She had a very brief appearance on The Munsters as a transformed Eddie Munster after Eddie (Butch Patrick) drank the rest of Grandpa (Al Lewis)'s Texas Playgirl Potion in season 1, episode 33 "Lily Munster, Girl Model".
In 1968, Beck and her stepfather Tommy Leonetti, then working in Australia, recorded the single "Let's Take a Walk", released under the name of "Tommy Leonetti and his daughter Kim".[2] It charted at #4 on the Melbourne charts.[3]
Beck starred in such movies as Massacre at Central High, Roller Boogie, and Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter.[4] Among her notable television credits are General Hospital, Capitol (billed as Kimberly Beck-Hilton), Fantasy Island, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (as Alison Michaels, one side of a Jekyll-and-Hyde character, whose counterpart Sabrina was played by Trisha Noble), Westwind, The Brady Bunch, Dynasty, Lucas Tanner and Peyton Place (as the character Kim Schuster).[5] Beck starred on the pilot episode of Eight Is Enough as Nancy Bradford, the role that, in the series, went to Dianne Kay. She also had the role of Diane Porter in Rich Man, Poor Man Book II with Peter Strauss and appeared in a host of other well-received television miniseries productions.
Beck was previously married to William Barron Hilton, Jr., son of Barron Hilton and a member of the Hilton family, from 1978 to 1985. In 1988, Beck married producer Jason Clark and they had two sons.[6] She appeared in the documentary Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th in 2013 and reprised her role as Trish Jarvis from the Friday the 13th franchise in a voiceover role for the fan film short Victim No More in 2022.[7]
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