Jennifer O'Neill

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Jennifer Lee O'Neill (born February 20, 1948 in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ) is an American film actress and model of Brazilian origin.

biography

Jennifer O'Neill is the daughter of Oscar O'Neill, of Irish American descent and an English mother. Her father flew a Boeing B-17 in World War II , was shot down over Germany, and survived a POW camp. After the war he traveled to England, where he married the Brazilian singer Carmen Miranda - Jennifer's stepmother.

Born in Brazil, O'Neill grew up in Connecticut . In a riding accident in 1963, she barely escaped paraplegia . Nevertheless, O'Neill is still a passionate horse lover to this day.

Shortly thereafter, the Connecticut family moved to New York City , where they began to gain experience in front of the camera as a model. In 1963 she signed CoverGirl (for a total of 30 years). There she attended the Dalton School in Manhattan . In 1965, at the age of 17, O'Neill married for the first time. The marriage produced a daughter.

In 1968 she made her film debut in Liebling on the side of Sidney Poitier . In 1971 their marriage ended in divorce and she remarried.

Her breakthrough had in 1970 with the John Wayne -Western Rio Lobo by Howard Hawks , their most tester film was the rotated in the same year melodrama Summer of '42 , where she is a young war widow embodies, in which a 15-year-old adolescent love. In 1985, Jennifer O'Neill played Valeria Messalina in the miniseries AD - Anno Domini .

O'Neill is said to have had a total of eight husbands (David Rossiter (1965–1971), Joseph Koster, Nicholas De Noia (1975–1976), Jeff Barry, John Lederer (1977–1983), James (1980s), Neil Bonin (1992 ) and Mervin Louque (1997)). She married one of them, Mervin Loque, a second time after being married again between the two marriages. According to this, O'Neill was married nine times. She has a daughter (first marriage) and two sons (fifth and sixth marriage).

O'Neill was the chair of the American Cancer Society for the Study of Cancer .

She now lives on a farm in Nashville , Tennessee with her current husband, Mervin Loque, whom she married a second time in 1997 .

Filmography

  • 1968: Liebling (For Love of Ivy)
  • 1969: Some Kind of a Nut
  • 1969: Futz
  • 1970: Rio Lobo
  • 1971: Summer of '42 (Summer of '42)
  • 1971: So good friends (Such Good Friends)
  • 1972: Glass Houses
  • 1972: The Carey Treatment
  • 1973: Diamond Lady (Lady Ice)
  • 1975: The Man Who Was Killed Twice (The Reincarnation of Peter Proud)
  • 1975: Cash - The unstoppable career of Private Ass (Whiffs)
  • 1975: Tool of the mighty (Gente di rispetto)
  • 1976: Innocence (L'innocente)
  • 1976: Call Girl: La vida privada de una señorita bien
  • 1977: The seven black notes (Sette note in nero)
  • 1978: The Lord of the Caravan (Caravans)
  • 1979: Love's Savage Fury (TV movie)
  • 1979: The Bulldozer (A Force of One)
  • 1979: Six Men of Steel (Steel)
  • 1980: Mad Pilot - Der Wahnsinnsflieger (Cloud Dancer)
  • 1981: Scanners - Your Thoughts Can Kill (Scanners)
  • 1981: The Other Victim (TV movie)
  • 1983: Bare Essence (TV series, 11 episodes)
  • 1984–1985: Fashion, Models and Intrigues ( Cover Up , TV series, 14 episodes)
  • 1985: Anno Domini - Battle of the Martyrs ( AD , miniseries, five episodes)
  • 1985: The Chase ( Chase , TV movie)
  • 1986: Perry Mason: Dead give no interviews ( Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star , TV movie)
  • 1987: I Love NY
  • 1988: The Red Spider (Movie made for TV)
  • 1988: Glory Days (TV movie)
  • 1989: Dirty Game ( Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal , Movie made for TV)
  • 1990: Rendezvous with a murderer ( staff , TV film)
  • 1991: Committed
  • 1992: The Admirer (Invasion of Privacy)
  • 1992: Wild Angel
  • 1992: Unpredictable ( Perfect Family , TV movie)
  • 1993: Death of the Mannequins ( The Cover Girl Murders , TV movie)
  • 1994: The Murderer's Plot ( Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence , Movie made for TV)
  • 1994: Discretion Assured
  • 1994: The Visual Bible: Acts
  • 1995: Navy Action ( Silver Strand , TV movie)
  • 1996: Voyeur II (VS)
  • 1996: Poltergeist - The Unheimliche Macht ( Poltergeist: The Legacy , TV series, an episode)
  • 1997: A Deadly Blonde (The Corporate Ladder)
  • 1997: Raney
  • 1997: Nash Bridges (TV series, episode)
  • 1997: The Ride
  • 1999: The Prince and the Surfer
  • 2000: On Music Row (TV movie)
  • 2002: Time Changer
  • 2008: Billy: The Early Years
  • 2012: Last Ounce of Courage
  • 2013: Doonby
  • 2016: I'm Not Ashamed

Web links

Commons : Jennifer O'Neill  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b entry at filmreference.com
  2. ↑ Biography. Jennifer O'Neill, archived from the original on September 8, 2008 ; Retrieved January 17, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME O'Neill, Jennifer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES O'Neill, Jennifer Lee (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film actress and model of Brazilian origin
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro , Brazil