Peggy Lipton

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Peggy Lipton
Peggy Lipton Mod Squad.JPG
Publicity photo of Lipton from the television program The Mod Squad
Born Margaret Ann Lipton
(1946-08-30) August 30, 1946 (age 66)
New York City, New York, USA
Nationality American
Education Lawrence Junior High School
Professional Children's School
Occupation Actress, model
Years active 1965–present
Spouse(s) Quincy Jones (m. 1974–1990)
Children Kidada Jones (born 1974)
Rashida Jones (born 1976)

Peggy Lipton (b. August 30th, 1946) is an American actress and model. She was an overnight success as flower child Julie Barnes in the iconic counterculture TV show The Mod Squad (1968-1973).[1] A former model and singer, her career in film, stage and television has spanned more than forty years[2] . Best known for her role in The Mod Squad, she is also noted for appearing as Norma Jennings in David Lynch's surreal Twin Peaks, and for her one-time marriage to Quincy Jones. She is mother to their two actress daughters Rashida and Kidada Jones.[3].

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Background [edit]

Born in New York on August 30th, 1946, Peggy Lipton was raised in a comfortably upper-middle-class family, her parents being the corporate lawyer Harold Lipton, and an artist known professionally as Rita Benson[4].[5]. Her paternal grandparents were Russian Jews, and her mother was born in Dublin, Ireland to Jewish parents, immigrants from Eastern Europe. [6][7] Lipton was raised on Long Island with her brothers, Robert, an actor, and Kenneth. She attended Lawrence Junior High School and the Professional Children's School.[8]

Sexually abused by an uncle [9], Lipton was a nervous, withdrawn child, with a stutter so bad that at times she could not say her own name. [10] In 1964 the family moved to Los Angeles and she became what she described as a "Topanga Canyon hippie", exploring meditation and yoga and subsisting on rice cakes and cottage cheese.[11]

Career [edit]

Her father arranged her first modeling jobs in New York, while her mother encouraged her to take acting lessons[12]. At 15 she became a Ford Agency model and enjoyed a successful career[13] After she and her family moved to Los Angeles in 1964, she signed a contract with Universal Pictures and made her TV debut in the NBC sitcom The John Forsythe Show (1965)[14]. Between 1965 and 1968 her list of appearances include Bewitched, The Virginian, The Invaders, The Road West, The F.B.I., Walt Disney's Willie and the Yank, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, and Mr. Novack.

Lipton's star rose on The Mod Squad. Waiflike and vulnerable [15], her performance as 'canary with a broken wing' Julie Barnes earned her four Golden Globe nominations during her tenure, and in 1971 she won a Golden Globe Award for Best TV Actress in a Drama[16]. Stick thin with long straight ash blond hair, clad in mini-skirts, bell bottoms and love beads, Lipton's Julie Barnes made her a fashion icon and the hip 'it' girl of her time.[17]

As a singer she enjoyed some success with three of her singles landing on the Billboard charts: "Stoney End" (1968, later covered by Barbra Streisand) and "Lu" (1970), both of which were written by Laura Nyro, and "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" (1970) written by Donovan. "Stoney End" also is included in her only 1968 album Peggy Lipton (Ode Records), which has yet to have an official Ode Records/CBS release on CD.

When Lipton Married Quincy Jones in 1974, it was the beginning of her long hiatus from acting in order to concentrate on her family. After she seperated from him in 1986, she commented "I had a great marriage, but it's over, and acting is what I know best how to do. I wanted children very badly, and I knew I couldn't do both well." In 1988 Lipton returned to acting, and the couple divorced in 1990. The role which brought her return to the public's attention was that of Norma Jennings in Twin Peaks (1991-1992), and she has since appeared in many TV shows, including a recurring role in Crash and Popular.

Personal life [edit]

Lipton's modeling career and instant fame as Julie Barnes on The Mod Squad brought her the attentions of many famous men, including Paul McCartney, Terence Stamp, his brother Chris, Keith Moon, Elvis Presley, and others.[18] During the late 60's-early 70's she had relationships with a series of alcoholic, abusive, and/or married men. During this time she also experimented with drugs. [19][20] As The Mod Squad ended she fell in love with composer and producer Quincy Jones, and they married in 1974. An interracial marriage, Lipton says she and Jones were often pulled over by police under the assumption that a white woman with a black man must be either a prostitute or a kidnapping victim.

Jones and Lipton separated in 1986 and divorced in 1990.[21] Still friends, the couple have two daughters, Rashida and Kidada Jones.[22]

In 2005 Lipton released her memoirs, Breathing Out, co-written by David and Coco Dalton. In the book Lipton revealed that she was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2004.[23]

Filmography [edit]

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References [edit]

  1. ^ Book Description for Breathing Out by Peggy Lipton. "Breathing Out:". Retrieved May 2013. 
  2. ^ Moviefone. "Biography Peggy Lipton". 
  3. ^ Moviefone. "Biography Peggy Lipton". 
  4. ^ Solitary Muser (2012). "Rashida Jones, Who do you think you are?". 
  5. ^ David Hutchings in People Magazine 1988. "Can You Dig It? the mod squad's Peggy Lipton, One marriage and fifteen years Later, Returns to Acting". 
  6. ^ Lipton, Peggy (May 2005). Breathing Out. St. Martin's Press. pp. 15, 18. ISBN 0312324138. 
  7. ^ stated on Who Do You Think You Are?, May 4, 2012.
  8. ^ "'Bored? Creatively I'm Bored, But...'", The New York Times, March 19, 1972. Accessed September 15, 2008. "The girl from uptight Lawrence, L. I., was now cool, worldly; Peggy Lipton had become, in the stone-age language of the sixties, a groovy chick, and Mod Squad had found its Julie."
  9. ^ Book Description for Breathing: Out by Peggy Lipton. "Breathing Out:". Retrieved May 2013. 
  10. ^ Barbara Wilkins in People Magazine March 1978. "Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton: Death Did Almost Them Part". Retrieved May 2013. 
  11. ^ Barbara Wilkins in People Magazine March 1978. "Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton: Death Did Almost Them Part". Retrieved May 2013. 
  12. ^ Barbara Wilkins in People Magazine March 1978. "Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton: Death Did Almost Them Part". Retrieved May 2013. 
  13. ^ David Hutchings in People Magazine 1988. "Can You Dig It? the mod squad's Peggy Lipton, One marriage and fifteen years Later, Returns to Acting". 
  14. ^ Artists MTV beta. "About Peggy Lipton". 
  15. ^ David Hutchings in People Magazine 1988. "Can You Dig It? the mod squad's Peggy Lipton, One marriage and fifteen years Later, Returns to Acting". 
  16. ^ David Hutchings in People Magazine 1988. "Can You Dig It? the mod squad's Peggy Lipton, One marriage and fifteen years Later, Returns to Acting". 
  17. ^ Style.Com. "Peggy Lipton". 
  18. ^ Style.Com. "Peggy Lipton". 
  19. ^ Amazon Editorial Reviews. "Breathing Out by Peggy Lipton". 
  20. ^ NNDB. "Peggy Lipton". 
  21. ^ "Music producer Jones, actress Lipton to divorce". The Milwaukee Sentinel. 1989-10-12. p. 3. Retrieved 30 November 2012. 
  22. ^ Marlow, Wil (2004-08-20). "From Rashida with love". ealinggazette.co.uk. Retrieved 30 November 2012. 
  23. ^ Ciuraru, Carmela (2005-06-04). "Lipton admits insecurity while living in mod times". latimes.com. Retrieved 30 November 2012. 

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