Peggy Lipton
Encyclopedia
Peggy Lipton is an American television actress. She played "Julie Barnes" in The Mod Squad
, and Norma Jennings in Twin Peaks
.
, the daughter of Rita Hetty (née
Benson), an artist, and Harold Lipton, a corporate lawyer. Her paternal grandparents were Russia
n Jews; her mother was born in Dublin, Ireland, to British Jewish parents whose families had immigrated from Eastern Europe
. Lipton was raised in Lawrence, Nassau County, New York
on Long Island
with her brothers, Robert, an actor, and Kenneth. She attended Lawrence Junior High School and the Professional Children's School
.
Lipton was married to music industry mogul Quincy Jones
from 1974 to 1990, with whom she has two daughters, Rashida Jones
, and Kidada Jones
.
and she signed a contract with Universal Pictures
the same year. She made her debut as a student at a private girls' academy in San Francisco
in the NBC
sitcom The John Forsythe Show
(1965–1966). In 1967, Lipton appeared in the series finale, "Elizabeth's Odyssey", of NBC's western
series The Road West
starring Barry Sullivan
and Kathryn Hays
.
Lipton's star rose on The Mod Squad
in 1968, and the show was a runaway hit until 1973. Her performance on the show earned her four Golden Globe nominations during her tenure. In 1971, Lipton won a Golden Globe Award in the category of Best TV Actress in a Drama. Lipton also enjoyed some success as a singer, with three of her singles landing on the Billboard Charts
: "Stoney End
" (1968, later successfully covered by Barbra Streisand
and "Lu" (1970), both compositions by Laura Nyro
), and "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" (1970) written by Donovan
. "Stoney End" is also included in her only 1968 album PEGGY LIPTON (Ode Records), which has yet to have an official Ode Records/CBS release on CD. "Sort of Records" at www.sunpk.com has a made to order MP3 CD of her recording. It is complete with a duplicate of the LP cover, with notes, plus two added bonus tracks not on the original LP.
In the 1990s, Lipton returned to acting and joined the cast of David Lynch
's television series Twin Peaks
. Lipton also had a recurring role on the TV show Popular
.
and appears to be in remission. During her year-long treatment, anonymous sources informed the New York Post
, she may have been supplied with 24-hour chauffeured car service at the expense of the state of New York, according to the same story in the New York Post (November 25, 2006 edition). The car, which the unnamed sources said reportedly took Lipton to chemotherapy
appointments as well as on personal errands, is suspected to have been supplied by Jack Chartier, reportedly a close friend of Lipton's as well as a staffer for Alan Hevesi
, the former New York State Comptroller, who was forced to resign due to a similar ethics investigation. Lipton "is not accused of any wrongdoing," the story added. The situation was being investigated by the Albany County, New York
District Attorney for possible ethics violations. As the New York Post reported, "David Neustadt, a spokesman for the comptroller's office, yesterday wouldn't comment on the investigation or answer whether Chartier has repaid the state any money for the Lipton driver."
The Mod Squad
The Mod Squad is a television series that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. This series starred Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton, Clarence Williams III, and Tige Andrews...
, and Norma Jennings in Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks is an American television serial drama created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. The series follows the investigation headed by FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper , of the murder of a popular teenager and homecoming queen, Laura Palmer...
.
Personal life and background
Lipton was born in New York CityNew York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, the daughter of Rita Hetty (née
Married and maiden names
A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage. When a person assumes the family name of her spouse, the new name replaces the maiden name....
Benson), an artist, and Harold Lipton, a corporate lawyer. Her paternal grandparents were Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n Jews; her mother was born in Dublin, Ireland, to British Jewish parents whose families had immigrated from Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
. Lipton was raised in Lawrence, Nassau County, New York
Lawrence, Nassau County, New York
Lawrence is a village in Nassau County, New York in the USA. As of the United States 2010 Census, the village population was 6,483.The Village of Lawrence is in the southwest corner of the Town of Hempstead, adjoining the border with the New York City borough of Queens to the west and near the...
on Long Island
Long Island
Long Island is an island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City , and two of which are mainly suburban...
with her brothers, Robert, an actor, and Kenneth. She attended Lawrence Junior High School and the Professional Children's School
Professional Children's School
Professional Children's School is a not for profit, college preparatory school that was founded in New York City in 1914 to provide an education to young people working on the New York stage, in Vaudeville, or "on the road."-History:...
.
Lipton was married to music industry mogul Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones
Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. is an American record producer and musician. A conductor, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend...
from 1974 to 1990, with whom she has two daughters, Rashida Jones
Rashida Jones
Rashida Leah Jones is an American film and television actress, comic book author, screenwriter and occasional singer. She played Louisa Fenn on Boston Public and Karen Filippelli on The Office as well as roles in the films I Love You, Man and The Social Network...
, and Kidada Jones
Kidada Jones
Kidada Ann Jones is an American actress, model, and fashion designer.-Early life:Kidada Jones is the elder daughter of composer/arranger Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton. She was raised in Bel-Air, California, with her younger sister, actress Rashida Jones.She began working as a celebrity...
.
Career
Lipton signed with the Ford Modeling Agency and enjoyed a successful career. In 1964 her family moved to Los AngelesLos Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
and she signed a contract with Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures
-1920:* White Youth* The Flaming Disc* Am I Dreaming?* The Dragon's Net* The Adorable Savage* Putting It Over* The Line Runners-1921:* The Fire Eater* A Battle of Wits* Dream Girl* The Millionaire...
the same year. She made her debut as a student at a private girls' academy in San Francisco
San Francisco, California
San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...
in the NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
sitcom The John Forsythe Show
The John Forsythe Show
The John Forsythe Show began as a situation comedy in the fall of 1965 on NBC, but at mid-season it switched to a spy show. In the first phase of the series, John Forsythe appeared as United States Air Force veteran John Foster, who inherited the private Foster School for Girls in San Francisco,...
(1965–1966). In 1967, Lipton appeared in the series finale, "Elizabeth's Odyssey", of NBC's western
Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...
series The Road West
The Road West
The Road West is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from September 12, 1966 to May 1, 1967 for twenty-nine episodes with rebroadcasts continuing until August 28. The hour-long series, sponsored by Kraft Foods, aired in the 9 p.m...
starring Barry Sullivan
Barry Sullivan (actor)
Barry Sullivan was an American movie actor who appeared in over 100 movies from the 1930s to the 1980s.Born in New York City, Sullivan fell into acting when in college playing semi-pro football...
and Kathryn Hays
Kathryn Hays
Kathryn Hays is an American actress. She was born in Princeton, Illinois and grew up in Joliet, Illinois.In the 1966-1967 television season, Hays appeared as Elizabeth Reynolds Pride in the NBC western series The Road West, with co-stars Barry Sullivan, Andrew Prine, Kelly Corcoran, and Glenn...
.
Lipton's star rose on The Mod Squad
The Mod Squad
The Mod Squad is a television series that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. This series starred Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton, Clarence Williams III, and Tige Andrews...
in 1968, and the show was a runaway hit until 1973. Her performance on the show earned her four Golden Globe nominations during her tenure. In 1971, Lipton won a Golden Globe Award in the category of Best TV Actress in a Drama. Lipton also enjoyed some success as a singer, with three of her singles landing on the Billboard Charts
Billboard charts
The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in the United States. The results are published in Billboard magazine...
: "Stoney End
Stoney End
Stoney End is the twelfth studio album by Barbra Streisand. Released in 1971, it was a change in direction for Streisand with a more upbeat contemporary pop sound...
" (1968, later successfully covered by Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Joan Streisand is an American singer, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy,...
and "Lu" (1970), both compositions by Laura Nyro
Laura Nyro
Laura Nyro was an American songwriter, singer, and pianist. She achieved considerable critical acclaim with her own recordings, particularly the albums Eli and the Thirteenth Confession and New York Tendaberry, and had commercial success with artists such as Barbra Streisand and The 5th...
), and "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" (1970) written by Donovan
Donovan
Donovan Donovan Donovan (born Donovan Philips Leitch (born 10 May 1946) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music...
. "Stoney End" is also included in her only 1968 album PEGGY LIPTON (Ode Records), which has yet to have an official Ode Records/CBS release on CD. "Sort of Records" at www.sunpk.com has a made to order MP3 CD of her recording. It is complete with a duplicate of the LP cover, with notes, plus two added bonus tracks not on the original LP.
In the 1990s, Lipton returned to acting and joined the cast of David Lynch
David Lynch
David Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound...
's television series Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks is an American television serial drama created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. The series follows the investigation headed by FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper , of the murder of a popular teenager and homecoming queen, Laura Palmer...
. Lipton also had a recurring role on the TV show Popular
Popular (TV series)
Popular is an American teenage comedy-drama on The WB Television Network in the United States, created by Ryan Murphy and Gina Matthews, starring Leslie Bibb and Carly Pope as two teenage girls that reside on polar opposite sides of the popularity spectrum at their high school, but are forced to...
.
Cancer
In 2004, Lipton was diagnosed with colon cancer. She has undergone treatment and she has had a proctocolectomyProctocolectomy
Proctocolectomy is the surgical removal of the rectum and all or part of the colon. It is a most widely accepted surgical method for ulcerative colitis and Familial adenomatous polyposis .- References :...
and appears to be in remission. During her year-long treatment, anonymous sources informed the New York Post
New York Post
The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and is generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, although – as is the case with most other papers – its publication has been periodically interrupted by labor actions...
, she may have been supplied with 24-hour chauffeured car service at the expense of the state of New York, according to the same story in the New York Post (November 25, 2006 edition). The car, which the unnamed sources said reportedly took Lipton to chemotherapy
Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer with an antineoplastic drug or with a combination of such drugs into a standardized treatment regimen....
appointments as well as on personal errands, is suspected to have been supplied by Jack Chartier, reportedly a close friend of Lipton's as well as a staffer for Alan Hevesi
Alan Hevesi
Alan G. Hevesi is a Democratic politician whoserved as a New York State Assemblyman from 1971 to 1993, as Comptroller of the City of New York from 1994 to 2001, and as State Comptroller for the State of New York from 2003 to 2006...
, the former New York State Comptroller, who was forced to resign due to a similar ethics investigation. Lipton "is not accused of any wrongdoing," the story added. The situation was being investigated by the Albany County, New York
Albany County, New York
Albany County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, and is part of the Albany-Schenectady-Troy Metropolitan Statistical Area. The name is from the title of the Duke of York and Albany, who became James II of England . As of the 2010 census, the population was 304,204...
District Attorney for possible ethics violations. As the New York Post reported, "David Neustadt, a spokesman for the comptroller's office, yesterday wouldn't comment on the investigation or answer whether Chartier has repaid the state any money for the Lipton driver."
Filmography
- Rules of EngagementRules of Engagement (TV series)Rules of Engagement is a sitcom that debuted on CBS on February 5, 2007, as a midseason replacement, immediately following Two and a Half Men, in the time slot that was occupied by now-cancelled The New Adventures of Old Christine...
, Adam's Mom, Fay, TV—2007 - AliasAlias (TV series)Alias is an American action television series created by J. J. Abrams which was broadcast on ABC for five seasons, from September 30, 2001 to May 22, 2006...
, Olivia Reed, TV--2004 - Jackpot, Janice—2001
- Skipped Parts, Laurabel Pierce—2000
- The '70s, Gloria Steinem—2000
- The Intern, Roxanne Rochet—2000
- The PostmanThe Postman (film)The Postman is an American post-apocalyptic epic film based on the 1985 novel of the same name by David Brin. It was filmed in northeastern Washington , Fidalgo Island, Washington, central Oregon and Tucson, Arizona, and was directed by Kevin Costner, who also stars in the film...
, Ellen March—1997 - Justice For Annie: A Moment Of Truth MovieJustice for Annie: A Moment of Truth MovieJustice for Annie: A Moment of Truth Movie is a 1996 television film directed by Noel Nosseck. The film, based on actual events, is a part of the Moment of Truth franchise and was also made as Death Benefit . Filming took place in Toronto.-Plot:...
, Carol Mills, TV—1996 - Deadly Vows, Nancy Wilson, TV—1994
- The Spider And The Fly, Helen Stroud, TV—1994
- Wings (NBC TV series)—1994
- Angel Falls, Hadley Larson, TV Series—1993
- Dangerous: The Short Films, Mother, ('Black or White' video)—1993
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Norma Jennings—1992
- Secrets, Olivia Owens TV Series—1992
- True IdentityTrue IdentityTrue Identity is a 1991 American comedy film directed by Charles Lane and starring Lenny Henry, Frank Langella and Anne-Marie Johnson. The plot revolves around a black man , who disguises himself as a white man to escape the mob....
, Rita—1991 - Fatal Charm, Jane Sims—1990
- Twin PeaksTwin PeaksTwin Peaks is an American television serial drama created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. The series follows the investigation headed by FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper , of the murder of a popular teenager and homecoming queen, Laura Palmer...
, Norma Jennings TV Series—1990 - Kinjite: Forbidden SubjectsKinjite: Forbidden SubjectsKinjite: Forbidden Subjects is an action/drama film starring Charles Bronson and directed by J. Lee Thompson. Being Thompson's final film, it was the last project he and Bronson did together.-Premise:...
, Kathleen Crowe—1989 - Purple People Eater, Mom—1988
- I'm Gonna Git You SuckaI'm Gonna Git You SuckaI'm Gonna Git You Sucka is a 1988 blaxploitation parody film written by, directed by and starring Keenen Ivory Wayans. Featured in the film are several black actors who were part of the blaxploitation phenomenon; including Jim Brown, Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas and Isaac Hayes...
, Uncredited—1988 - War Party, TV Correspondent—1988
- Addicted to His Love, Assistant DA TV—1988
- Return of the Mod Squad, Julie Barnes TV—1979
- A Boy...a Girl—1969
- The Mod SquadThe Mod SquadThe Mod Squad is a television series that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. This series starred Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton, Clarence Williams III, and Tige Andrews...
, Julie Barnes TV Series—1968 - Blue, Laurie Kramer—1968
- Mosby's Marauders, Oralee Prentiss—1967
- The VirginianThe Virginian (TV series)The Virginian is an American Western television series starring James Drury and Doug McClure, which aired on NBC from 1962 to 1971 for a total of 249 episodes. Filmed in color, The Virginian became television's first 90-minute western series...
, Dulcie Colby TV Series—1966 - The John Forsythe ShowThe John Forsythe ShowThe John Forsythe Show began as a situation comedy in the fall of 1965 on NBC, but at mid-season it switched to a spy show. In the first phase of the series, John Forsythe appeared as United States Air Force veteran John Foster, who inherited the private Foster School for Girls in San Francisco,...
, Joanna TV Series—1965
External links
- Peggy Lipton—Yahoo! Movies