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Tiffany Bolling (born Tiffany Royce Kral) is a retired American actress, model and singer, best known for her appearances in cult movies.


Early years

Bolling was born in
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. Her father was singer/pianist
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and her mother was singer/comedian Bettie Miller. Singer
Irene Kral Irene Kral (January 18, 1932 – August 15, 1978) was an American jazz singer who was born to Czechoslovakian parents in Chicago, Illinois and settled in Los Angeles in the early 1960s. She died from breast cancer in Encino, California. Kral's ...
was her aunt. Her parents divorced shortly after her birth. Her mother then married businessman William Bolling, who adopted her. His business ventures brought his new family to southern Florida, where she grew up


Career

In the late 1960's, Bolling had bit parts in the comedy '' Birds Do It'' (1966) and the detective drama ''
Tony Rome ''Tony Rome'' is a 1967 American neo-noir mystery crime thriller film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Frank Sinatra in the title role, alongside Jill St. John, Sue Lyon and Gena Rowlands. It was adapted from Marvin H. Albert's novel ' ...
'' (1967), starring
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. She starred in the television series ''
The New People ''The New People'' is a 1969 American television series on ABC that focused on a group of young college students who were returning from a trip in Southeast Asia when their plane crashed on an island in the south Pacific Ocean. This program is ...
'', but it only lasted one season (1969-70). She guest-starred on a number of other television series, including '' Ironside'' ("The Wrong Time, the Wrong Place", 1970, as a film actress who falls in love with
Don Galloway Donald Poe Galloway (July 27, 1937 – January 8, 2009) was an American stage, film and television actor, best known for his role as Detective Sergeant Ed Brown in the long-running crime drama series '' Ironside'' (1967–1975). He reprised the ...
's Sgt. Ed Brown), ''
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'' (as a leprosy victim engaged to Don Galloway's character, shot the same year as the "Ironside" episode), and ''
The Sixth Sense ''The Sixth Sense'' is a 1999 American psychological thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It stars Bruce Willis as a child psychologist whose patient ( Haley Joel Osment) claims he can see and talk to the dead. Released ...
'' (as Damaris in "Witch, Witch, Burning Bright", 1972). In April 1972, she did a pictorial for ''
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'' magazine. She later called that exposure "the worst experience of my life" and said she was not paid a fee. The ''Playboy'' photographs led to her appearing in
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, including ''
Bonnie's Kids ''Bonnie's Kids'' is a 1972 American neo-noir thriller film written and directed by Arthur Marks. Plot Sisters Myra and Ellie Thomas live in Glendora, California, with their abusive stepfather, Charley, who was married to their now-deceased mo ...
'' (1972); ''
The Candy Snatchers ''The Candy Snatchers'' is a 1973 American exploitation crime film directed by Guerdon Trueblood. The film was unofficially inspired by the kidnapping of Barbara Jane Mackle. It stars Susan Sennett as a teenager who is kidnapped and held for ...
'' (1973); '' Wicked, Wicked'' (1973); '' The Centerfold Girls'' (1974); and a bit part as Kate in the "Woman in the Wilderness" episode of ''
The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams ''The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams'' is a 1974 independent feature film produced by Charles E. Sellier Jr. and Raylan D. Jensen for Sun Classic Pictures. The film's popularity led to an NBC television series of the same name. The title cha ...
'' (1977). She was dismissive of ''The Candy Snatchers'' and took the role solely for the money, elaborating "I was doing
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...and I didn't really know what I was doing, and I was very angry about the way that my career had gone in the industry... the opportunities that I had and had not been given... The hardest thing for me, as I look back on it, was I had done ''
The New People ''The New People'' is a 1969 American television series on ABC that focused on a group of young college students who were returning from a trip in Southeast Asia when their plane crashed on an island in the south Pacific Ocean. This program is ...
'', and so I had a lot of young people who really respected me and... revered me as something of a hero, and then I came out with this stupid ''Candy Snatchers'' movie... it was a horrendous experience." Bolling continued to win roles throughout the 1970's. She had a supporting role in the
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movie '' The Wild Party'' (1975) She also appeared in the children's television program '' Electra Woman and Dyna Girl'' (1976) and the sci-fi show '' Man from Atlantis'' (1977) and co-starred with
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in the science fiction film ''
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'' (1977). She had guest roles in ''
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'', '' Bronk'', ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
Mannix ''Mannix'' is an American detective television series that ran from 1967 to 1975 on CBS. It was created by Richard Levinson and William Link, and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller. The title character, Joe Mannix, is a private in ...
'', ''
Barnaby Jones ''Barnaby Jones'' is an American detective television series starring Buddy Ebsen as a formerly retired investigator and Lee Meriwether as his widowed daughter-in-law, who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles, California. The show was o ...
'', and ''
Vega$ ''Vegas'' (stylized as ''Vega$'') is an American crime drama television series that aired on ABC from September 20, 1978, to June 3, 1981, with the pilot episode airing April 25, 1978. ''Vegas'' was produced by Aaron Spelling and created by Mic ...
'' as well as '' Ironside''. "


Family

Twice divorced, she has been married to production administrator Richard G. Casares since October 8, 1983; the couple have one child, a daughter.


Filmography


References


External links

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