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Leigh Taylor-Young
Actress
Female
Born
Jan 25, 1945
Age
68
Hometown
United States
Other Names
Taylor, Leigh; Ta...
Leigh Taylor-Young is an American actress who has appeared on stage, screen, and television.
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Guy McElwaineMarried 1978
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CHILDHOOD
1945
Birth
Leigh Taylor-Young was born on January 25, 1945, in Washington, D.C. Her last name is an amalgamation of the last names of her father, a diplomat, and her stepfather, a successful Detroit executive.
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TEENAGE
1963
18 Years Old
Taylor-Young was raised in Oakland County, Michigan, and graduated from Groves High School in Beverly Hills, Michigan, in 1963.
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TWENTIES
Taylor-Young got her first big break in 1966, when she was cast as Rachel Welles in the prime time soap opera Peyton Place.
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It was on this series that she met Ryan O'Neal, whom she later married. Taylor-Young had difficulty working on the show, explaining in an April 1967 interview:
1968
23 Years Old
Her first film role came opposite Peter Sellers in the 1968 comedy, I Love You, Alice B. Toklas.
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1969
24 Years Old
This was followed by her appearance with husband Ryan O'Neal in The Big Bounce in 1969.
1973
28 Years Old
For the next several years, her pictures tended to be high budget films, such as The Adventurers and The Horsemen. She is perhaps best known for her performance as Shirl, the "furniture" girl, in the 1973 science fiction classic Soylent Green.
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THIRTIES
1981
36 Years Old
In 1981, she appeared in the high tech Michael Crichton production Looker.
1983
38 Years Old
In addition to her film work, Taylor-Young guest-starred on such television series as McCloud, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, Hart to Hart, Hotel, and Spenser: For Hire. She returned to her soap opera roots in 1983, appearing in the short-lived primetime series The Hamptons.
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1984
39 Years Old
In 1984, she starred opposite Donald Davis in Beckett's one act play Catastrophe at the Edinburgh International Festival.
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FORTIES
1985
40 Years Old
In 1985, she was cast as Virginia Howell in Jagged Edge, and appeared in the romantic comedy film Secret Admirer.
1993
48 Years Old
Perhaps her best-known television work was on the CBS series Picket Fences, in which she played mercurial mayor Rachel Harris from 1993 through 1995.
1994
49 Years Old
She won an Emmy Award for the role in 1994, for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, as well as a Golden Globe nomination the following year.
FIFTIES
2004
59 Years Old
From 2004 through 2007, she played Katherine Barrett Crane on the soap opera Passions.
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