Ann Turkel is an American actress and former model, known for her collaborations with, and marriage to, actor

Richard Harris Richard St John Francis Harris (1 October 1930 – 25 October 2002) was an Irish actor and singer. Having studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, he rose to prominence as an icon of the British New Wave. He received numerous a ...

Early life

Born into a Jewish middle-class family and raised in Manhattan, Turkel had, by age 16, studied with both

Sanford Meisner Sanford Meisner (August 31, 1905 – February 2, 1997) was an American actor and acting teacher who developed an approach to acting instruction that is now known as the Meisner technique. While Meisner was exposed to method acting at the Group ...

at the

Neighborhood Playhouse A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neighbourh ...

and Philip Burton at the

American Musical and Dramatic Academy The American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) is a private conservatory for the performing arts in New York City and Los Angeles, California. The conservatory offers master's degrees, bachelor's degrees, associate degrees, and certificates ...

Career

In the late 1960s, she was photographed for American ''Vogue''. Patrick Lichfield captured images of her on location in the United Kingdom, the Bahamas, and Italy during the early 1970s, and included them in his 1981 book ''The Most Beautiful Women''. After a brief appearance in the film '' Paper Lion'' (1968), her first major role was in the 1974 film, '' 99 and 44/100% Dead'' starring her future husband Richard Harris, and they acted together in '' The Cassandra Crossing'' (1976), '' Golden Rendezvous'' (1977) and '' Ravagers'' (1979). She portrayed comic strip heroine

Modesty Blaise ''Modesty Blaise'' is a British comic strip featuring a fictional character of the same name, created by author Peter O'Donnell and illustrator Jim Holdaway in 1963. The strip follows Modesty Blaise, an exceptional young woman with many talen ...

in a 1982 TV pilot. Her other movie roles included ''Portrait of a Hitman'' (1979), with

Jack Palance Walter Jack Palance ( ; born Volodymyr Palahniuk, , ''Volodymyr Ivanovych Palahniuk''; February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006) was an American screen and stage actor, known to film audiences for playing tough guys and villains. He was nominat ...

, and '' Humanoids from the Deep'' (1980), '' Deep Space'' (1988) and '' The Fear'' (1995). She also played the role of modeling agent and immortal Kristen in "Chivalry", a season four episode of '' Highlander: The Series''.

Personal life

Turkel and Harris married in 1974 in Beverly Hills. They were divorced in 1982. Despite their divorce, she and Harris remained good friends.

Filmography

Film

Television

Notes

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Turkel, Ann Living people American film actresses American television actresses Actresses from Manhattan Female models from New York (state) Jewish American actresses American Musical and Dramatic Academy alumni Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre alumni 21st-century American women Year of birth missing (living people)