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Alana Hamilton Stewart () is an American actress and former model. She has also used her maiden name, Alana Collins, and her names from her first marriage, Alana Collins-Hamilton and Alana Hamilton professionally.


Early life

Born Alana Kaye Collins in San Diego, she grew up in
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, and
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, before heading to New York to become a model. She claimed to have grown up in poverty. Collins signed with
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and traveled to Los Angeles for many television and commercial appearances.


Acting career

In the early 1970s, she began an acting career. Her first role was a bit part in the biographical film ''
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'', which starred her then-husband, George Hamilton. She later made guest appearances on television shows such as ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'' and ''
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''. In 1995, she and ex-husband George Hamilton hosted their own syndicated
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, ''
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''. The series was cancelled the following year. In 2003, Stewart was a contestant in the
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'' I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'' From 2006 to 2009, Stewart filmed and produced an Emmy-nominated 90-minute documentary, " Farrah's Story", chronicling her friend and fellow model
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's battle with cancer. In 2012, she guest-starred in an episode of the Caruso, Portier web series '' DeVanity'' as Claudia Muller, the mother of Lara Muller DeVanity and Dr. Portia Muller Roth.


Political activities

In 2014, Stewart, who is a Republican, endorsed her friend,
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candidate
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, for
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in California's 33rd district. Stewart is a
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supporter, having voted for him in 2016 and 2020. She opposes restrictions on gun ownership, aside from "stringent background checks". Post-divorce, she has lived alone and keeps her gun on her bedside table. Stewart was a signatory of the bipartisan letter calling for
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to allow sales of the
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and
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discs of the 2019 political documentary '' No Safe Spaces''. After
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called the 2020 presidential election in Arizona for
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, she was among the list of
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who ceased supporting the news channel and switched to
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.


Personal life

She married actor George Hamilton in 1972. They had one child, a son named
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. The couple divorced in 1975. In 1979, she married singer
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. The couple had a daughter, Kimberly, and a son,
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. Alana and Rod Stewart divorced in 1984, but she retained his surname. In the early 1990s, Stewart discovered she had the Epstein-Barr virus after suffering from symptoms caused by the virus for two decades. In 1994, she began speaking out about her illness and revealed that she removed her
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because she felt they contributed to her illness. Stewart was a close friend of
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, who died in 2009 after a long battle with cancer, and she was the President/CEO of the Farrah Fawcett Foundation. Her 2009 ''New York Times'' best seller ''My Journey with Farrah: A Story of Life, Love, and Friendship'' is dedicated to her journey with Fawcett. In 2012, she published a book titled ''Rearview Mirror: A Memoir'', detailing her upbringing, her early career as a model, her marriages and subsequent divorces, and the deaths of her mother and Fawcett.


Filmography


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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stewart, Alana Living people Actresses from San Diego People from Nacogdoches, Texas Female models from California American television actresses American film actresses Participants in American reality television series Family of Rod Stewart Year of birth missing (living people)