Peggy Lipton facts for kids
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Peggy Lipton
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Lipton in 1968
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Margaret Ann Lipton
August 30, 1946 New York City, New York, U.S.
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| Died | May 11, 2019 (aged 72) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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| Years active | 1965–2017 |
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| Children | Kidada Jones Rashida Jones |
Margaret Ann Lipton (August 30, 1946 – May 11, 2019) was an American actress, model, and singer. She was well known through her role as flower child Julie Barnes in the counterculture television series The Mod Squad (1968–1973), for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama in 1970. Her five-decade television, film, and stage career included many roles, including Norma Jennings in David Lynch's Twin Peaks.
Career
Modeling and acting
Lipton's father arranged her first modeling jobs in New York while her mother encouraged her to take acting lessons. At 15, Lipton became a Ford Agency model and enjoyed a successful early career. After she and her family moved to Los Angeles in 1964, Lipton signed a contract with Universal Pictures. She made her television debut at age 19 in the NBC sitcom The John Forsythe Show (1965). Between 1965 and 1968, she appeared in episodes of Bewitched, The Virginian, The Invaders, The Road West, The F.B.I., The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, and Mr. Novak.
Lipton starred in The Mod Squad as one of a trio of Los Angeles undercover "hippie cops". Appearing waiflike and vulnerable, as David Hutchings wrote, her performance as "canary with a broken wing" Julie Barnes earned her four Emmy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations during her tenure. In 1971, she won a Golden Globe Award for Best TV Actress in a Drama. Thin with long, straight, ash blonde hair, clad in mini-skirts, bell bottoms, and love beads, Lipton's Julie Barnes became a fashion icon and the hip "it" girl of her time.
In 1988, Lipton returned to acting. She gained attention for her performance as Norma Jennings in the TV series Twin Peaks (1990–1991) and subsequently appeared in many TV shows, including recurring roles in Crash and Popular. In 2017 she reprised her character of Norma Jennings in the revival of Twin Peaks. Also in 2017, she appeared in an episode of Angie Tribeca as the mother of the title character played by her daughter Rashida Jones.
Singing
As a singer, three of Lipton's singles landed on the Billboard charts: "Stoney End" (No. 121 Bubbling Under Hot 100, 1968, later a hit for Barbra Streisand in 1970) and "Lu" (1970), both written by Laura Nyro. Her "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" (1970) was written by Donovan. "Stoney End" is included in her 1968 album Peggy Lipton (Ode Records), which was released on CD on July 29, 2014 by RealGone Music, along with other singles and previously unreleased material (nineteen tracks in all). Lipton is listed as one of several co-writers of the Frank Sinatra 1984 hit, "L.A. Is My Lady".
Personal life
Lipton was briefly linked with Paul McCartney. During the late 1960s and the early 1970s, she also had relationships with a series of alcoholic, abusive, or married men. During this time, she used drugs. She covered some of this period in her memoir Breathing Out (2005), co-written by David and Coco Dalton. After Lipton married musician and producer Quincy Jones in 1974, she took a hiatus from acting in order to concentrate on her family (with the exception of appearing in the made-for-TV movie The Return of the Mod Squad in 1979). The couple had two daughters, Kidada (born March 22, 1974) and Rashida (born February 25, 1976), who both became actresses. Lipton separated from Jones in 1986, and they divorced in 1990.
Death
Lipton revealed that she had been diagnosed with colon cancer in 2004 and was treated for it. On May 11, 2019, she died of the disease in Los Angeles.
See also
In Spanish: Peggy Lipton para niños
