Lorna Luft
Lorna Luft (born November 21, 1952 in Santa Monica , California ) is an American singer and actress .
Life
Lorna Luft is the daughter of Judy Garland and Sidney Luft . She grew up in Hollywood with her half-sister Liza Minnelli and younger brother Joey Luft until their parents divorced in 1965. At this point Lorna began to take care of her drug-addicted mother intensively and traveled with her from concert tour to concert tour. She performed with her brother at her mother's concerts and after her mother's death in 1969, like her older half-sister, tried her hand as a singer and actress in show business. She played in some Broadway though-Shows and a few films, but had no comparable success. Lorna Luft has been married for the second time since 1996 and has two children, a son and a daughter, from her first marriage. In 1998 she published her successful autobiography under the title Me and my Shadows: Living with the Legacy of Judy Garland , which was filmed in 2001 for American television with Judy Davis as Judy Garland.
In March 2018, she collapsed on stage during a performance in London. The diagnosed brain tumor was surgically removed shortly afterwards.
Filmography (selection)
- 1963: Boards That Mean the World (I Could Go on Singing)
- 1975: A Sheriff in New York ( McCloud ; TV series, 1 episode)
- 1982: Grease 2
- 1984: Beach Parties - Sun, Sex and Sunnyboys (Where the Boys Are)
- 1985: Twilight Zone (TV series, 1 episode)
- 1985–1986: Trapper John, MD (TV series, 19 episodes)
- 1985/1990: Murder is her hobby ( Murder, She Wrote ; TV series, 2 episodes)
- 1995: The Nanny ( The Nanny ; TV Series, 1 episode)
- 1998: My Giant (My Giant)
- 1998: Studio 54
- 2014: Sean Saves the World (TV series, 1 episode)
Web links
- Lorna Luft in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Works by and about Lorna Luft in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lorna Luft , biography.com
- ↑ Information on 'The Official Lorna Luft Site' ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Lorna Luft diagnosed with brain tumor after collapsing ( en ) March 10, 2018.
- ↑ Lorna Luft has successful brain surgery for tumor ( en ) March 23, 2018.
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SURNAME | Air, Lorna |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American singer and actress |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1952 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Santa Monica |