Marcy Lafferty

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Marcy Lafferty , also Lafferty Shatner , (born June 21, 1946 ) is an American actress and playwright .

life and career

Lafferty was born the daughter of director, producer and actor Perry Lafferty . She learned ballet at the American Ballet Theater. She received her first acting lessons from her mother, a radio actress. She later had professional acting lessons from the renowned acting teacher Stella Adler .

She graduated from the University of Southern California . There she was a member of the Festival Theater USC USA, which was the first American theater company to participate in the Edinburgh International Drama Festival. She stepped on the Festival Theater as Abigail in The Crucible , Lois Dear Friends , Katherine Suddenly, Last Summer , Elise and Maggie in After the Fall ( After the Fall ) by Arthur Miller and as a singer and dancer in the musical Guys and Dolls and Pal Joey up. As part of her theater work there, she met the director John Edward Blankenchip , who 30 years later was involved in the implementation of Vivien Leigh - The Last Press Conference for the theater. In September 2009 she was one of the guest speakers at the memorial service for Blankenchip, who died in April 2009.

Lafferty was seen internationally in over 60 plays. These included, among other things, Otherwise Engaged by Simon Gray as Divina Saunders in 1978 and as Maggie in The Cat on the Hot Tin Roof of Tennessee Williams in 1981 with William Shatner as actor and director in Los Angeles . She played the Eastern Seaboard Circuit with the pieces The Tender Trap and Tennessee Williams' period of adjustment ( Period of Adjustment ). Lafferty appeared in the role of Portia in Richard Greenberg's play The Author's Voice at the Stella Adler Theater in Los Angeles. In 1991 she toured with her then-husband William Shatner with the play Love Letters .

She starred in Vivien: The Movie, The Marriage, The Madness , a short film she produced , in which she was active as a writer, director and leading actress. This film gave rise to the idea for a play about Vivien Leigh , Vivien Leigh: The Last Press Conference , a one-person play that Lafferty wrote himself. It premiered in the summer of 1997 at the Drummond Theater in Edinburgh as part of the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival . In 1998 the play took place at the Tiffany Theater in Los Angeles, at the Theater LaB in Houston and in the fall of 1998 at the Scendedock Theater in Los Angeles. From autumn 2000 Lafferty went on tour with the piece.

In 2001 Lafferty made a guest appearance in London . The London performance was also featured in the New York Times . In 2004, she joined with the piece to the Off-Broadway - 59E59 Theaters in New York City on. In 2007 she performed with Vivien at Spindletop Hall in Lexington . The play was also performed in Europe , including Paris and Rome , and re-enacted by other actresses. Catherine Spaak took on the role of Vivien Leigh at the Teatro Eliseo in Rome in April 2010 . Other performances took place in Grenoble , among others . The main role played there Caroline Silhol .

Lafferty also took on roles in film and television . Lafferty had her first role in a television movie in 1971 . In Paper Man she worked on the side of Dean Stockwell and Stefanie Powers . In the same year she was seen in an episode of The Bold Ones: The New Doctors in the role of Janice. In 1973 she was in the comedies Stat! as Dolores Payne and in Coffee, Tea or Me? with it. She starred in Impulse in 1974 with William Shatner and Ruth Roman . In the same year she starred in Tell Me Where It Hurts on the side of Paul Sorvino and Maureen Stapleton . In The Coast of the Crooks, she worked again with William Shatner. In Barnaby Jones , she starred in an episode in the role of Connie. Lafferty was again to be seen in the horror film Killer Spinnen at the side of her then husband Shatner. There she represented his sister-in-law who fell victim to the arachnids . In 1977 she played the role of Susan Barlow in an episode of Big Hawaii . In Death Flight 401 she was seen with Shatner, Adrienne Barbeau , Artie Shaw and Brooke Bundy . She worked with Shatner on Star Trek: The Movie , where she played the role of Chief DiFalco.

In 1980 she played alongside Jim Davis and Christopher Mitchum in Invasion from Space . She played a minor role in The Incredible Journey in a Crazy Spaceship , which also starred Shatner, Robert Hays , Sonny Bono and Lloyd Bridges . She was also seen in several episodes of the crime series TJ Hooker between 1982 and 1986 in various roles. In 1983 she made a guest appearance on Fantasy Island on the side of Ricardo Montalbán . In 1984 she starred in Mike Hammer in the role of Rhonda Rondale with Anthony De Longis . After a lengthy film break, she appeared in 1994 in Rave Review alongside Ed Begley Jr. and Joe Spano . In the comedy The Hour of the Devils , she played the role of Sonya Napier.

She appeared three times on the game show Tattletales . In 1984 she took part in the Circus of the Stars .

family

Lafferty married William Shatner on October 20, 1973 . They separated in 1994 and divorced in 1996. Lafferty later married Elliot King, an international hair stylist. Lafferty and her husband raise award-winning show horses on their farm in Lexington , Kentucky . They live in Lexington and Los Angeles .

Filmography (selection)

Publications

literature

  • Ralph Sander: The Star Trek Biographies. The who's who for all fans . Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-453-08126-9 , p. 217.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A Celebration of the Life of John Edward Blankenchip ( Memento June 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) in: Callboard , USC School of Theater
  2. ↑ MARCY LAFFERTY as Vivien Leigh biography on vivien.com
  3. ^ Marcy Lafferty Interview with Marcy Lafferty, September 7, 2001
  4. ^ A b The Play Vivien Leigh-The Last Press Conference
  5. ↑ Nostalgia laced with tragedy ( Memento from December 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Review from October 23, 2001 by Rachel Haliburton (archive.md)
  6. ↑ Vivien Leigh - The Last Press Conference ( Memento of December 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Review of October 23, 2001 by Amanda Hodges (archive.md)
  7. ↑ LONDON THEATER: Vivien Leigh Lives! But Not on This Stage in: New York Times, September 5, 2001
  8. ↑ Vivien Leigh: The Last Press Conference review of the performance in New York
  9. ↑ Broadway Coming To Spindletop ( Memento of September 7, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Announcement of February 20, 2006
  10. ↑ Catherine Spaak in Vivien Leigh, al Teatro Eliseo (Roma) ( Memento from April 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Review from April 25, 2010
  11. ↑ William Shatner Biography (1931-) Entry about William Shatner at Filmreference
  12. ^ William Shatner. In: Turner Classic Movies . Retrieved October 28, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Lafferty, Marcy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lafferty-Shatner, Marcy (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1946