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Who Was Peggy Lipton?
Lipton's father arranged her first modeling jobs in New York while her mother encouraged her to take acting lessons. Appearing waiflike and vulnerable, as David Hutchings wrote, [6] her performance as "canary with a broken wing" Julie Barnes earned her four Emmy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations during her tenure. After The Mod Squad , Lipton did no full-time acting for 15 years. In she reprised her character of Norma Jennings in the Twin Peaks revival. Is My Lady ". Lipton was briefly linked with Paul McCartney. The couple had two daughters, Kidada who was born before they were married and Rashida , who both became actresses. Lipton died of colon cancer in Los Angeles on May 11, [30] [31] [32] after being diagnosed in From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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She was Her death from cancer was announced Saturday by Kidada and Rashida Jones, her daughters from a marriage to famed music producer Quincy Jones. Born in New York on Aug. Her role and later marriage to Jones, who is black, put Lipton at the center of the passions of a restive America dealing with racism and a post-World War II generation who were breaking free from their parents. Fame really drove me into my house. I was very paranoid. I had no idea how to be comfortable with the press.
Actress Peggy Lipton started out as a model in New York in the s. She took a break from acting during much of the s and s, but she returned to series television in in David Lynch's Twin Peaks. Her recent projects included roles on Alias and Crash. Lipton grew up as the middle child in an upper middle class Jewish family. Her father was a lawyer and her mother was an artist.
