Ann Turkel
American actress and former model

Ann Turkel

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American actress and former model
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Ann Kathryn Turkel (born July 16, 1946) is an American actress and former model. Turkel studied acting at the Musical Theatre Academy.

Life and career

Turkel was born in New York City, New York, to a Jewish family. She was photographed for American Vogue in the late 1960s. Patrick Lichfield captured images of her on location in England, the Bahamas, and Sardinia 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 (married that same year), and they also acted together in The Cassandra Crossing (1976), Golden Rendezvous (1977) and Ravagers (1979). They were divorced in 1982.Despite their divorce she and Harris remained good friends.

She portrayed comic strip heroine Modesty Blaise in a 1982 TV pilot.

Her other film roles included Portrait of a Hitman (1979), with Jack Palance, and the horror films 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.

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1975 Matt Helm Maggie Gantry "Pilot" episode
1978 Greatest Heroes of the Bible Delilah Mini-series episode "Samson & Delilah"
1981 Death Ray 2000 Sabina Dorffman TV movie
1982 Modesty Blaise Modesty Blaise TV movie
The Fall Guy Shawna Ives / Kitty Ives episode "The Ives Have It"
1982, 1983 Fantasy Island Rowena Haversham,
Leila Proctor
2 episodes
1983 Matt Houston Maureen Flanders episode "Here's Another Fine Mess"
The Love Boat Stacy Banks episode "Vicki's Dilemma/Discount Romance/
Looser & Still Champ"
1983-1984, 1985 Knight Rider Adrienne Margeaux/St. Clair,
Bianca Morgan
3 episodes
1984 Masquerade unnamed episode "Caribbean Holiday"
The New Mike Hammer Gail Storrs-Rainey episode "Catfight"
1985 Riptide Denise McKean episode "Baxter and Boz"
Street Hawk Melanie Ryan / Katherine Reese episode "Female of the Species"
Hollywood Beat Lita "Pilot" episode
1986 Night Court Judge Eve Gardner episode "Contempt of Courting"
Scarecrow and Mrs. King Pam Jentry episode "Three Little Spies"
Murder, She Wrote Barbara Bennington episode "Stage Struck"
1987 Worlds Beyond Helen Scott episode "Captain Randolph"
1991 White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd Gloria Swanson TV movie (uncredited)
Silk Stalkings Roxanne Dockweiler aka Roxy The Doxy "Pilot" episode
Chance of a Lifetime Tippi van Norden TV movie
1992 Down the Shore unnamed episode "Waiting for Aldo"
1994 RoboCop: The Series Louise episode "Money Can't Buy"
1995 Highlander Kristin episode "Chivalry"
1998 The Hunger Woman episode "A River of Night's Dreaming"
1999 Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction Mrs. Richerds Anthology series episode "E-Mail II/Blood Donor/Epitaph/Stiches in Time/Soldier"