Peggy Lipton is a former American model and woman who has devoted fifty years to a career in film and television. She is best known for her role as Julie Barnes from the crime drama The Squad Styles and Norma Jennings from the mystical series Twin Peaks. The article will devote a little more time to the work of the actress.
Biography
Ann Margaret "Peggy" Lipton was born in 1946 in New York. Her parents were corporate lawyer Harold Lipton and artist Rita Benson. The girl grew up on Long Island with her brothers: Kenneth and Robert. She studied at a professional children's school - an institution specializing in the preparation of children who want to become actors or dancers in the future.
In 1964, the Liptons in full force moved to Los Angeles, where the girl, as she herself later claimed, was a little hippy - she did meditation and yoga, and ate cottage cheese and rice cakes. In 1974, Anne Margaret married producer and musician Quincy Jones. They had two daughters - Leah Rashid and Kidad. And in order to devote more time to the family, the actress even suspended acting. But after twelve years of marriage, Peggy and Quincy began to move away from each other, and in 1990 divorced.
Carier start
For the first time, actress Peggy Lipton appeared on the TV screen in 1965 when she played the secretary in the Saul Sachs comedy series “My Wife Charmed Me” (1964-1972). And then she got episodic roles in several TV series: “Mr. Novak” (1963-1965), “Hour of Alfred Hitchcock” (1962-1965), “Virginians” (1962-1971), “Disneyland” (1954-1991), “FBI” "(1965-1974) and" Invaders "(1967-1968).
In 1968, the actress played a small role as Lowry Kramer in the Western Blue Silvio Narizzano. And in the period from 1968 to 1973, Peggy as one of the main characters participated in the filming of a multi-part crime drama on ABC channel "Squad" Dandies "." In the center of the plot are four friends leading a rampant lifestyle. Each of them has already managed to cross the line of the law, and now, to stay at large, the guys are forced to cooperate with the police. Peggy Lipton played Julie Barnes - a hippy girl and a failed singer who ran away from her addict mother but was caught by the San Francisco police for vagrancy.
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The actress received a supporting role in the television comedy of Arthur Allan Seidelman, “Dependent on His Love” (1988). In the same year, she appeared in Linda Shane’s science fiction comedy Purple Eater. She starred in the criminal action movie J. Lee Thompson "Kinjait: Forbidden Topics." And she played Jane Sims in the thriller Alan Smithy and Fritz Kirsch “Deadly Charm” (1990), where a schoolgirl named Valerie was “lucky” to find her love in the form of Adam Brennan, who, according to the police, is guilty of several murders at once.
In 1991, Peggy Lipton as Rita, a supporting character, appeared in Charles Lane's comedy film "Personality Change." But two years later she got the main role of Headley Larson in the dramatic mini-series Joyce Elliason "Angel Falls" (1993). And a year later she played in the detective film by Michael Cattleman “The Spider and the Fly” and the television drama Alan Metzger's “Deadly Obligations”.
Clairvoyant Postman
The role of Ellen Marsh Peggy went to Kevin Costner's adventure movie Postman (1997). The movie star played Roxanne Rotchet in the comedy film "The Trainee," filmed by Michael Lange in 1999. In the role of the American feminist, politician and journalist appeared in the television drama Peter Werner "The Seventies" (2000). The image of Kelly Foster tried on in four episodes of the teenage drama Gina Matthews and Ryan Murphy's "Best" (1999-2001).
In 2000, Tamra Davis introduced the world to the melodrama Children Under 16, in which Peggy Lipton earned a decent supporting role. The episode character, the actress was offered to play in the comedy drama Michael Polish "Jackpot" (2001). She also played Olivia Reid in the serial action movie Spy (2001-2006) and Susie in four episodes of Glen Mazzara’s drama Clash (2008-2009).
The actress got a small role in the melodrama Once Upon a Time in Rome, created in 2009 by Mark Stephen Johnson. Then she appeared in the first season of the comedy series Matthew Carnahan “Resident Lies” (2012-2016) and in the eighth season of comedy detective Steve Franks “Clairvoyant” (2006-2014). In 2017, Peggy played one of the main roles in the comedy drama Lasse Hallström “Dog Life”. And the mother of the main character, Peggy Tribeca, played in two episodes of the police comedy Steve and Nancy Carell “Angie Tribeca” (2016- ...).
Peggy Lipton’s Half Life in Twin Peaks
When David Lynch and Mark Frost launched their multi-genre (but mostly mystical) project called Twin Peaks in the late 1980s, they proposed Anne Margaret Lipton as the main role. In the series about life in a quiet town, which was suddenly covered by a wave of mysterious murders, the actress played the role of Norma Jennings, the charming owner of a local cafe.
We can say that the character has become an integral part of the project, and besides, the audience is very fond of it. Therefore, the appearance of Peggy Lipton in the movie “Twin Peaks: Through Fire” (1991), which was the prequel to the series, was expected. And even after 22 years, when the script was ready and the “green light” was shot, Norma Jennings was allocated a place in five episodes of the third season.