Galyn Görg

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Galyn Görg , also called Galan Gorg , Galen Gorg and Gaylyn Görg , (born July 15, 1964 in Los Angeles , California ; † July 14, 2020 there ) was an American actress and dancer .

Life

Görg was one of the five children of Gwyndolin Lee Görg, a writer, former actress and model of African American , Choctaw , Blackfoot and Irish origins, and the German-American documentary filmmaker, screenwriter and producer Alan Kent Görg. She grew up in Los Angeles and Hawaii . She began her career as a dancer at the Dupree Dance Academy, the Alvin Ailey Summer Program and The Professional Dancer's Society. She was well versed in the dance styles of jazz , ballet , Haitian dance, Afro- Samba , Afro-Cuban dance, West African dance, hip-hop , hula and funk .

She studied acting with Ivana Chubbuck , Paul Schackman as well as in Improv for The People, Anthony Meindl Actor's Workshop, The Groundlings, The Improv, Pacific Resident Theater and The Susan Giosa Acting Workshop. Her film, television and theater work has taken her to Italy , Mexico , New Zealand , the Middle East and Canada, among others . As a dancer, she has worked with the likes of Paula Abdul , Stevie Wonder , The Jackson Five , Patrick Swayze , Debbie Allen , Lionel Richie , Al Jarreau and Donna Summer . In ZZ Top music video Sharp Dressed Man , she appeared as a dancer. She also achieved fame as a dancer in the two Italian variety television series Fantastico by Rai and SandraRaimondo Show by Canale 5 .

Films she has appeared in include America 3000 (1986), The Bikini Shop (1986), Living the Blues (1986), Down Twisted (1987), Dance Academy (1988) and Temptation (1994). Her best-known television series roles were that of Nancy O'Reilly in three episodes of Twin Peaks' 1990 and that of Lt. Leora Maxwell in the MANTIS series , which first aired from 1994 to 1995. As a producer she was jointly responsible for the 2006 film drama Earth Spirit .

She died on July 14, 2020, a cancer , a day before her 56th birthday.

Filmography

Movies

  • 1984: Strangers in Paradise
  • 1985: Spiegel ( Mirrors , TV movie)
  • 1986: America 3000
  • 1986: The Bikini Shop
  • 1986: Living the Blues
  • 1987: Down Twisted
  • 1988: Scout Academy (The Wrong Guys)
  • 1988: Magic Movie (The Wizard of Speed ​​and Time)
  • 1988: Dance Academy
  • 1988: Sisters - A New Beginning ( Nightingales , TV movie)
  • 1989: The Decision ( When We Were Young , Movie made for TV)
  • 1990: Sporting Chance (TV movie)
  • 1990: RoboCop 2
  • 1991: Dangerous surf (Point Break)
  • 1992: Storyville
  • 1993: Firestorm over California ( Firestorm: 72 Hours in Oakland , TV movie)
  • 1993: Judgment Night Sentenced to Kill (Judgment Night)
  • 1994: Temptation
  • 2006: Earth Spirit (as producer)
  • 2016: A Husband for Christmas (TV movie)
  • 2017: The Wrong Student (TV movie)
  • 2017: The Wrong Crush (TV movie)
  • 2018: The Wrong Friend
  • 2018: A Christmas in Royal Fashion (TV movie)

TV Shows

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Actress Galyn Görg has died. In: Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG, tvmovie.de, Hamburg. 2020, accessed on July 16, 2020 .
  2. ^ Alan Kent Görg in Who's Who in the West, 1998-1999 in the Google book search
  3. ↑ Galyn Gorg Net Worth . Myesha Cogley - star-news.org. Retrieved December 12, 2018.
  4. ↑ Galyn Görg - Bio . galyngorg.com. Retrieved December 12, 2018.
  5. ↑ Galyn Görg Bio . Retrieved December 12, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Görg, Galyn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gorg, Galan; Gorg, Galen; Görg, Gaylyn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress and dancer
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 2020
Place of death Los Angeles , California