Ann Dusenberry
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Ann Dusenberry is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 actress from Tucson, Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...

 known primarily for a variety of television series and made-for-TV movie roles in the 1970s, 80s and early 90s.

Acting career

Dusenberry played Amory alias Angel Collins in the TV movie Stonestreet: Who Killed The Centerfold Model? (1977) and Amy March in Little Women
Little Women (1978 film)
For other motion pictures of this title, see Little Women Little Women is a 1978 romantic family drama television film directed by David Lowell Rich and based upon Louisa May Alcott's novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Suzanne Clauser...

in a two-part series on NBC in 1978, and returned to the role in a full series the next year. Also in 1978, she appeared as beauty queen Tina Wilcox in Jaws 2
Jaws 2
Jaws 2 is a 1978 thriller film and the first sequel to Steven Spielberg's Jaws , which is based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name...

. She played Lucille Ball
Lucille Ball
Lucille Désirée Ball was an American comedian, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film and television executive, and star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy and Life With Lucy...

's daughter Margot in the 1986 series Life With Lucy
Life With Lucy
Life with Lucy is an American sitcom starring Lucille Ball. The show ran on the ABC network in 1986, and unlike Ball's previous hits on television, it was a critical and ratings flop.- Premise :...

.

Education and family life

Dusenberry studied theater arts for four years, first at the University of Arizona
University of Arizona
The University of Arizona is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. The University of Arizona was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885...

, then Occidental College
Occidental College
Occidental College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1887, Occidental College, or "Oxy" as it is called by students and alumni, is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges on the West Coast...

. She got her first role by circulating her resume and photograph within the Universal Studios
Universal Studios
Universal Pictures , a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, is one of the six major movie studios....

 offices using internal envelopes obtained by her boyfriend, a truck driver for Universal. She signed a seven year contract with Universal. She is married to composer Brad Fiedel
Brad Fiedel
Brad Ira Fiedel is an American movie music composer. Raised in the Village of Bayville, on Long Island's tony North Shore, Fiedel graduated from The Barlow School in upstate New York....

, who she lives with in Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean...

. They have two daughters. She received an MA in Marriage and Family Therapy, and works as Artistic Director of the Actors’ Conservatory Theatre in Santa Barbara. She is the daughter of Bruce and Katie Dusenberry, the owners of a family business and respectively a former attorney and former Pima County supervisor.

Filmography

  • Captains and the Kings
    Captains and the Kings
    Captains and the Kings is a 1972 historical novel by Taylor Caldwell chronicling the rise to wealth and power of an Irish immigrant, Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh, who arrives penniless as a teenager in the United States of America...

    (1976)
  • Eight Is Enough
    Eight Is Enough
    Eight Is Enough is an American television comedy-drama series which ran on ABC from March 15, 1977 until August 29, 1981. The show was modeled after syndicated newspaper columnist Thomas Braden, a real-life parent with eight children, who wrote a book with the same name...

    (1977)
  • The Possessed (1977)
  • Desperate Women (1978)
  • Jaws 2
    Jaws 2
    Jaws 2 is a 1978 thriller film and the first sequel to Steven Spielberg's Jaws , which is based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name...

    (1978), Tina Wilcox
  • Little Women
    Little Women (1978 film)
    For other motion pictures of this title, see Little Women Little Women is a 1978 romantic family drama television film directed by David Lowell Rich and based upon Louisa May Alcott's novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Suzanne Clauser...

    (1978), Amy
  • Trapper John, M.D.
    Trapper John, M.D.
    Trapper John, M.D. is an American television medical drama and spin-off of the film MASH, concerning a lovable surgeon who became a mentor and father figure in San Francisco, California. The show ran on CBS from September 23, 1979, to September 4, 1986....

    (1979), Maggie
  • Heart Beat (1980), Stevie
  • National Lampoon Goes to the Movies
    National Lampoon Goes to the Movies
    National Lampoon Goes to the Movies is a 1982 National Lampoon anthology of three shorts spoofing everything from personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories...

    (1981), Dominique Corsair
  • Cutter's Way
    Cutter's Way
    Cutter's Way is a 1981 thriller directed by Ivan Passer. The film stars Jeff Bridges, John Heard, and Lisa Eichhorn. The screenplay was by Jeffrey Alan Fiskin, based on the novel Cutter and Bone by Newton Thornburg....

    (1981), Valerie
  • The Family Tree
    The Family Tree
    The Family Tree - a short-lived television series made in 1983. It was preceded by The Six of Us, a 1982 television movie that served as a pilot episode.-Plot:...

    (1983),Molly Nichols Tanner
  • Basic Training
    Basic Training (1985 film)
    Basic Training is a 1985 sex comedy film by Andrew Sugerman. It is often considered to be one of the worst films of 1985.-Plot:...

    (1985)
  • Lies (1985)
  • Life with Lucy
    Life With Lucy
    Life with Lucy is an American sitcom starring Lucille Ball. The show ran on the ABC network in 1986, and unlike Ball's previous hits on television, it was a critical and ratings flop.- Premise :...

    (1986)
  • Long Time Gone (1986)
  • Our Town
    Our Town
    Our Town is a three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. It is a character story about an average town's citizens in the early twentieth century as depicted through their everyday lives...

    (stage production) (1998), Mrs Gibbs

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