Doran Clark (born August 8, 1954
[) is an American actress.
]
Early life and education
Clark was born to actress/model Audrey Caire and William Clark. She has two sisters and two brothers, including actress Louise Clark Goddard (of the Harry and Louise
"Harry and Louise" was a $14 to $20 million year-long television advertising campaign funded by the Health Insurance Association of America (HIAA)a predecessor organization which merged into the AHIPa health insurance industry lobby group, that ...
political commercials). She is the granddaughter of General Mark W. Clark
Mark Wayne Clark (1 May 1896 – 17 April 1984) was a United States Army officer who fought in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. He was the youngest four-star general in the U.S. Army during World War II.
During World War I, he wa ...
. Clark graduated from Syracuse University
Syracuse University (informally 'Cuse or SU) is a Private university, private research university in Syracuse, New York, United States. It was established in 1870 with roots in the Methodist Episcopal Church but has been nonsectarian since 1920 ...
with a degree in European history and later earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in performing arts from Briarcliff College
Briarcliff College was a women's college in Briarcliff Manor, New York. The school was founded as Mrs. Dow's School for Girls in 1903 at the Briarcliff Lodge. After Walter W. Law donated land and a building for the college, it operated at ...
.
Career
Clark's film and television credits include ''Black Eagle
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'' (with Jean-Claude Van Damme
Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg (, ; born 18 October 1960), known professionally as Jean-Claude Van Damme (, ), is a Belgian martial artist and actor. Born and raised in Brussels, his father enrolled him in a Shotokan karate schoo ...
and Sho Kosugi), '' Passport to Paris'' (with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Fuller Olsen (born June 13, 1986), also known as the Olsen twins, are American fashion designers and former actresses. Mary-Kate Olsen, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Ashley made their acting debut as infants playing Mi ...
), numerous appearances on ''Perry Mason
Perry Mason is a fictional character, an American criminal defense lawyer who is the main character in works of detective fiction written by Erle Stanley Gardner. Perry Mason features in 82 novels and four short stories, all of which involve a ...
'', '' Matlock'', ''Jake and the Fatman
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'', '' Trapper John, M.D.'', an appearance on an episode of ''MacGyver
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'' called "The Heist," several episodes of ''Murder, She Wrote
''Murder, She Wrote'' is an American crime drama television series, created by Peter S. Fischer, Richard Levinson and William Link, starring Angela Lansbury, and produced and distributed by Universal Television for the CBS network. The series f ...
'', as well as many starring and supporting roles on sitcoms from the late 1970s through the 1990s.
She was known for her roles on three different primetime soaps: the short-lived (eight episodes) '' Secrets of Midland Heights'' as Ann Dulles; '' King's Crossing'' as Jillian Beauchamp; and ''Emerald Point N.A.S.
''Emerald Point N.A.S'' is an American primetime soap opera created by ''Dynasty''s Richard and Esther Shapiro which premiered on CBS on Monday, September 26, 1983. The series revolved around the lives of personnel stationed on a naval air sta ...
'' as Ensign Leslie Mallory.[ ] She also played Charlene Chasen in the short-lived NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. It is one of NBCUniversal's ...
-TV drama '' Nightingales''.[Terrace, Vincent (2011). ''Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . P. 763.]
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
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1954 births
American film actresses
American television actresses
Living people
21st-century American women