Holly Palance

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Holly Kathleen Palance (born August 5, 1950 in Los Angeles ) is an American actress and journalist .

Live and act

Holly Palance is the eldest daughter of the actor Jack Palance and his first wife Virginia Baker (1922-2003), who was also an actress. The couple married in 1949 and had two more children after Holly, Brooke Gabrielle Palance (* 1952) and Cody John Palance (1955-1998), both of whom later appeared in several film roles. The family lived temporarily near Paris (around 1958) and in Lausanne , where Jack Palance took part in filming. He and Baker separated in 1966, followed by divorce in 1968.

Holly Palance attended the Webber Douglas Academy in London . Her acting career began in the mid-1970s with minor TV roles. Noteworthy is her appearance in 1976 as a nanny in The Omen . In the same year she appeared in the TV miniseries Dickens of London . In 1983 she played Miss Carmichael in The Thorn Birds . In Rocket Man she had one of the central roles as Elly Dundee . In the 1980s, she and her father hosted a season of the television series Ripley's Believe It or Not! .

Palance was married to director Roger Spottiswoode . They worked together on two films ( Rocket Man , Under Fire ). The marriage produced a daughter and a son. They divorced in 1997.

Later, Palance worked as a journalist. She started out as an editor and columnist for Buzz Magazine for ten years . Her column, The Hills , was reprinted in the New York Times and nominated for a Maggie Award. She has also worked as a freelance writer for the Los Angeles Times , Cosmopolitan and other magazines. She then became editor-in-chief of Santa Barbara Magazine and, from 2004, editor-in-chief of Distinction Magazine for the Los Angeles Times. She taught global studies at the University of California .

Filmography

  • 1973: Golf Etiquette
  • 1975: Thriller (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1976: Plays for Britain (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1976: The Omen ( The Omen )
  • 1976: Dickens of London (TV series, 6 episodes)
  • 1977: Sherlock Holmes or The strange case of the end of civilization ( The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It )
  • 1978: The Comeback
  • 1979: Telford's Change (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 1980: Spy! (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1982: Tuxedo Warrior
  • 1982: Bret Maverick (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1983: The Thorn Birds ( The Thorn Birds , television series, 3 episodes)
  • 1983: Under Fire
  • 1986: Rocket Man ( The Best of Times )
  • 1989: Cast the First Stone

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Marriages of Jack Palance marriage.about.com, accessed February 1, 2012.
  2. ^ Distinction Magazine Names Holly Palance as Editor-in-Chief. In: Los Angeles Times September 28, 2004. February 1, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Palance, Holly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Palance, Holly Kathleen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles