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Peggy Lipton
Publicity photo of Lipton for The Mod Squad, circa 1968.
Born	Margaret Ann Lipton (1946-08-30) August 30, 1946 (age 78) New York City, New York, U.S.
Nationality	American
Education	Professional Children's School
Occupations	Actress model
Years active	1965–present
Known for	Julie Barnes – The Mod Squad Norma Jennings – Twin Peaks
Spouse	Quincy Jones ​ ​(m. 1974; div. 1990)​
Children	Kidada Rashida
Awards	1970 – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama – (The Mod Squad)

Margaret Ann "Peggy" Lipton (born August 30, 1946) is an American actress and former model. Lipton became an overnight success through her best-known role as flower child Julie Barnes in the ABC counterculture television series The Mod Squad (1968–1973) for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama in 1970. Her fifty-year career in television, film, and on stage included many roles, most notably that of Norma Jennings in David Lynch's surreal Twin Peaks. Lipton was married to the musician/producer Quincy Jones and is mother to their two daughters, Rashida Jones and Kidada Jones, who also became actresses.

Early life

Born in New York on August 30, 1946, Lipton was raised in a comfortably upper-middle-class Jewish family. Lipton's parents were Harold Lipton (1911–1999), a corporate lawyer, and Rita Benson (1912–1986), an artist. Her paternal grandparents were Russian Jews, and her mother was born in Dublin, Ireland to Jewish parents who had immigrated from Eastern Europe.

Lipton was raised on Long Island with her brothers, Robert, who became an actor, and Kenneth. She attended Lawrence Junior High School and the Professional Children's School. Sexually abused by an uncle, Lipton was a nervous, withdrawn child. She had a stutter that at times prevented her from saying her own name. In 1964, the family moved to Los Angeles; there Lipton became what she described as a "Topanga Canyon hippie", exploring meditation and yoga, and subsisting on rice cakes and cottage cheese.

Career

Lipton's father arranged her first modeling jobs in New York, while her mother encouraged her to take acting lessons. At 15, Lipton became a Ford Agency model and enjoyed a successful early career. After she and her family moved to Los Angeles in 1964, Lipton signed a contract with Universal Pictures. She made her television debut at age 19 in the NBC sitcom The John Forsythe Show (1965). Between 1965 and 1968, she appeared in episodes of the following series: Bewitched, The Virginian, The Invaders, The Road West, The F.B.I., Walt Disney's Willie and the Yank, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, and Mr. Novack.

Lipton's star rose on The Mod Squad. Appearing waiflike and vulnerable, as David Hutchings wrote, her performance as "canary with a broken wing" Julie Barnes earned her four Emmy nominations and four Golden Globe nominations during her tenure. In 1971, she won a Golden Globe Award for Best TV Actress in a Drama. Thin with long, straight, ash blonde hair, clad in mini-skirts, bell bottoms, and love beads, Lipton's Julie Barnes became a fashion icon and the hip "it" girl of her time.

Singing

As a singer she enjoyed some success, with three of her singles landing on the Billboard charts: "Stoney End" (No. 121 Bubbling Under Hot 100, 1968, later a hit for Barbra Streisand in 1970) and "Lu" (1970), both written by Laura Nyro. Her "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" (1970) was written by Donovan. "Stoney End" is included in her 1968 album Peggy Lipton (Ode Records), which was released on CD on July 29, 2014 by RealGone Music, along with other singles and previously unreleased material (nineteen tracks in all). Lipton is listed as one of several co-writers of the Frank Sinatra 1984 hit, "L.A. Is My Lady".

Return to acting

In 1988, Lipton returned to acting. She gained attention for her performance as Norma Jennings in the popular TV series Twin Peaks (1990–91) and has since appeared in many TV shows, including recurring roles in Crash and Popular. In 2017 she reprised her character of Norma Jennings in the revival of Twin Peaks.

Personal life

During the late 1960s and the early 1970s, Lipton had relationships with a series of alcoholic, abusive, and/or married men. During this time, she also used drugs. Lipton covered some of this period in her memoir Breathing Out (2005), co-written by David and Coco Dalton. She revealed that she had been diagnosed with colon cancer in 2004 and treated for it. Starting in 2003, Jack Chartier, who at the time was chief of staff of Alan Hevesi, the then New York State Comptroller, quietly funneled pension fund money of up to $90,000 to Lipton to help her with rent and hospital bills. He also invested another $44,000 in pension-fund money in a business venture in which one of Lipton's daughters was involved.

Marriage and family

After Lipton married musician/producer Quincy Jones, in 1974, she took a hiatus from acting in order to concentrate on her family (with a notable exception of appearing in the TV movie The Return of the Mod Squad in 1979). They had two daughters, Rashida and Kidada Jones, who became actresses. Lipton separated from Jones in 1986, and they divorced in 1990.

Filmography

Film

Television

See also

• Biography
• New York City
• Los Angeles
• California
• Film
• Television
• Music
• Judaism

References

1. ^ Moviefone. "Biography Peggy Lipton".
2. Solitary Muser (2012). "Rashida Jones, Who do you think you are?".
3. ^ David Hutchings (1988). "Can You Dig It? the mod squad's Peggy Lipton, One marriage and fifteen years later, returns to acting". People Magazine.
4. Lipton, Peggy (2005). Breathing Out. St. Martin's Press. pp. 15, 18. ISBN 0312324138.
5. stated on Who Do You Think You Are?, May 4, 2012.
6. "'Bored? Creatively I'm Bored, But...'", The New York Times, March 19, 1972. Accessed September 15, 2008. Quote: "The girl from uptight Lawrence, L. I., was now cool, worldly; Peggy Lipton had become, in the stone-age language of the sixties, a groovy chick, and Mod Squad had found its Julie."'
7. Book Description. "Breathing Out:".
8. ^ Barbara Wilkins (March 1978). "Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton: Death Did Almost Them Part". People Magazine.
9. Artists MTV beta. "About Peggy Lipton".
10. Style.Com. "Peggy Lipton". Style.
11. Amazon Editorial Reviews. "Breathing Out by Peggy Lipton".
12. Ciuraru, Carmela (June 4, 2005). "Lipton admits insecurity while living in mod times". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
13. Tom Robbins (December 8, 2009). "The Peggy Lipton Affair Brings Down Another Mogul". Village Voice. Retrieved March 1, 2014.
14. Marlow, Wil (August 20, 2004). "From Rashida with love". ealinggazette.co.uk. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
15. "Music producer Jones, actress Lipton to divorce". The Milwaukee Sentinel. October 12, 1989. p. 3. Retrieved November 30, 2012.

External links

• Peggy Lipton at IMDb
• Peggy Lipton at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

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• Actresses of Russian descent
• Female models from New York (state)
• American female singers
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• Best Drama Actress Golden Globe (television) winners
• Colorectal cancer survivors
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• Living people
• People from The Five Towns, New York
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