Peggy Lipton
Margaret Ann Lipton (August 30, 1946 – May 11, 2019) was an American model, actress, and singer. She made appearances in many of the most popular television shows of the 1960s before she landed her defining role as flower child Julie Barnes in the crime drama The Mod Squad (1968–1973), for which she was nominated for four Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards, winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama in 1970. After The Mod Squad, Lipton married musician Quincy Jones and began a 15-year hiatus from acting, during which she raised her two children, Kidada and Rashida Jones.
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Peggy Lipton
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- Full name
- Margaret Ann Lipton.
- Born
- 1946. · New York City.
- Died
- 2019. · Los Angeles.
- Nationality
- United States.
- Occupation
- singer, writer, model and actress.
- Education
- Lawrence High School.
- Languages
- English.
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Margaret Ann Lipton (August 30, 1946 – May 11, 2019) was an American model, actress, and singer. She made appearances in many of the most popular television shows of the 1960s before she landed her defining role as flower child Julie Barnes in the crime drama The Mod Squad (1968–1973), for which she was nominated for four Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards, winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama in 1970. After The Mod Squad, Lipton married musician Quincy Jones and began a 15-year hiatus from acting, during which she raised her two children, Kidada and Rashida Jones.
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Peggy Lipton (1946–2019) was an American actress, model and singer, among other activities. Born Margaret Ann Lipton in New York City, the actress died in Los Angeles. Peggy Lipton studied at Lawrence High School. Languages used include English.
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Early life
Early life
She returned to acting in 1988, performing in many TV roles, including Norma Jennings in David Lynch's surrealist mystery-horror drama Twin Peaks.
Margaret Ann Lipton was born into an upper middle-class Jewish family in New York City on August 30, 1946, the daughter of artist Rita Benson (born Rita Hetty Rosenberg) and corporate lawyer Harold Lipton. Her paternal grandparents (surnamed Lipschitz) were Jewish immigrants from Russia, and her mother was born in Dublin, Ireland, to Jewish parents from Latvia. Lipton was raised in Lawrence, Nassau County, New York, on Long Island, with her brothers: Robert, who became an actor, and Kenneth. She attended Lawrence High School before transferring to the Professional Children's School. Sexually abused by an uncle, Lipton was a nervous and withdrawn child with a stutter so severe that she was sometimes unable to say her own name. In 1964, the family moved to Los Angeles, where Lipton became what she called a "Topanga Canyon hippie" who explored meditation and yoga.
Modeling and acting
Modeling and acting
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 Bewitched, The Virginian, The Invaders, The Road West, The F.B.I., The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, and Mr. Novak. Lipton starred in The Mod Squad as one of a trio of Los Angeles undercover "hippie cops". Appearing waiflike and vulnerable, as David Hutchings wrote, her performance as "canary with a broken wing" Julie Barnes earned her four Emmy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award 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. After The Mod Squad, Lipton did no full-time acting for 15 years (with the exception of appearing in the made-for-TV movie The Return of the Mod Squad in 1979). In March 1988, she returned to television as the star of an ABC movie, Addicted to His Love. She eventually regained major attention for her performance as Norma Jennings in David Lynch's TV series Twin Peaks (1990–1991), and subsequently appeared in many TV shows, including recurring roles in Crash and Popular. In 2017 she reprised her character of Norma Jennings in the Twin Peaks revival. Also in 2017, she appeared in an episode of Angie Tribeca as the mother of the title character played by her daughter Rashida Jones.
Singing
Singing
As a singer, three of Lipton's singles landed on the Billboard charts: "Stoney End" (No. 121 Bubbling Under Hot 100, 1968, later a Top Ten 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 and her husband Quincy Jones, along with Alan and Marilyn Bergman, co-wrote the 1984 Frank Sinatra hit, "L.A. Is My Lady".
Personal life
Personal life
At the age of 18, she began using drugs in an attempt to alleviate her depression. Lipton was briefly linked with Paul McCartney before he met his wife Linda. They met first on 24 August 1964, when Lipton was 17 and McCartney was 22. After Lipton married musician and producer Quincy Jones in 1974, she took a hiatus from acting to concentrate on her family. The couple had two daughters, Kidada (born 1974) and Rashida (born 1976), who both became actresses. Lipton and Jones separated in 1986, and divorced in 1990.
Death
Death
After being diagnosed in 2004, Lipton died of colon cancer in Los Angeles on May 11, 2019, at the age of 72.
Singles
Singles
1968 "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" b/w "Honey Won't Let Me" (45 rpm) (Record World AC #40) 1968 "Stoney End" b/w "San Francisco Glide" (45 rpm) (Billboard No. 121) 1969 "Red Clay County Line" b/w "Just A Little Lovin' (Early In The Morning)" (45 rpm) 1970 "Lu" / "Let Me Pass By" (45 rpm) (#45 Canada, February 1970) 1970 "Let Me Pass By" b/w "Hands Off the Man (Flim Flam Man)" (45 rpm)
Publicity photo from the television program The Mod Squad. The main cast is pictured, from left: Clarence Williams III, Peggy Lipton, Michael Cole.
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Publicity photo of Peggy Lipton from the television program The Mod Squad.
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Life and career
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Life and career
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Peggy Lipton - The Complete Ode Recordings (1968) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
1968
Peggy Lipton - The Complete Ode Recordings digitised by Internet Archive.
2019
Peggy Lipton died in 2019 at Los Angeles.
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Discography
1968 Peggy Lipton (Ode Records) 2013 Peggy Lipton: The Complete Ode Recordings (Vivid Sound)
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q235305: Peggy Lipton
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- “Peggy Lipton”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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scholarly publication
- Remembering Doris Day and Peggy Lipton: Icons of white femininity, 2019
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- 1.Jews Making News: Rashida Jones, Isla Fisher. The Atlanta Jewish Times. July 1, 2013.
- 2.Wilkins, Barbara. Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton: Death Nearly Did Them Part. People. 3. 10. March 17, 1975.
- 3.Solitary Muser. Rashida Jones, Who do you think you are?. 2012.
- 4.Hutchings, David. Can You Dig It? the mod squad's Peggy Lipton, One marriage and fifteen years later, returns to acting. People. 29. 13. April 4, 1988.
- 5.Lipton, Peggy. Breathing Out. St. Martin's Press. 15, 18. 2005. 978-0-3123-2413-1.
- 6.stated on Who Do You Think You Are?. May 4, 2012.
- 7.Rashida Jones discovers her family's holocaust secret. Newshub. May 6, 2012.
- 8.Demist, Robert. 'Bored? Creatively I'm Bored, But. '. The New York Times. March 19, 1972.
- 9."Lawrence native Peggy Lipton, 72; Former Five Towner was in the Mod Squad", Nassau Herald, May 12, 2019. Accessed June 20, 2024. "Known for her role in the 1970s television show Mod Squad and as the mother of actresses Rashida and Kidada Jones, Lawrence native Peggy Lipton died on May 11 of colon cancer, according to her daughters.... The former wife of musician, composer and producer Quincy Jones, Lipton was born in New York City on Aug. 30, 1946 to an upper-middle-class Jewish family and attended Lawrence High School up to 1962 when she moved on to attend the Professional Children’s School, a nonprofit college prep for mostly working or aspiring actors or dancers in grades six to 12."
- 10.Wilkins, Barbara. Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton: Death Did Almost Them Part. People. March 1978.
- 11.Deming, Mark. About Peggy Lipton. MTV. Viacom.
- 12.White, James. Actor Peggy Lipton Dies, Aged 72. Empire. May 12, 2019.
- 13."Twin peaks"-skådespelaren Peggy Lipton död. May 12, 2019.
- 14.Atriz Peggy Lipton morre aos 72 anos.
- 15.Saldivia, Gabriela. Peggy Lipton, Star Of 'The Mod Squad' And 'Twin Peaks', Dies At 72. NPR. May 12, 2019.
- 16.Gates, Anita. Peggy Lipton, 'Mod Squad' and 'Twin Peaks' Actress, Dies at 72. The New York Times. May 12, 2019. 0362-4331.
- 17.Peggy Lipton. Style.
- 18.Andreeva, Nellie. 'Twin Peaks': Who Else Is Returning & Other Tidbits About Showtime Reboot. Deadline Hollywood. February 10, 2016.
- 19.Mitovich, Matt Webb. Peggy Lipton, of The Mod Squad and Twin Peaks, Dead at 72. TVLine. May 12, 2019.
- 20.Leszczak, Bob. From Small Screen to Vinyl: A Guide to Television Stars Who Made Records, 1950-2000. Rowman & Littlefield. 195–196. June 25, 2015. 978-1-4422-4274-6.
- 21.AllMusic class=album id=mw0000691222 tab=Overview label=L.A. is My Lady first=Stephen Thomas last=Erlewine access-date=30 May 2019
- 22.Lipton, Peggy. Breathing Out by Peggy Lipton. St. Martin's Griffin. 282. 2005. 9780312324131.
- 23.Taylor, Charles. 'Breathing Out': One Blonde. The New York Times. June 12, 2005.
- 24.The Beatles have a day off in Bel Air, Los Angeles. The-paulmccartney-project.com.
- 25.Norman, Philip. Paul McCartney: The Biography. Little, Brown. 317–318. May 3, 2016. 978-0-3163-2796-1.
- 26.Bennett, Anita. Peggy Lipton Dead: 'Mod Squad' And 'Twin Peaks' Actress Was 72. Deadline Hollywood. May 11, 2019.
- 27.Beresford, Trilby. Quincy Jones Pens Emotional Tribute to Ex-Wife Peggy Lipton. May 15, 2019.
- 28.Gates Jr., Henry Louis. African American Lives. Oxford University Press. 478. April 29, 2004. 978-0-1951-6024-6.
- 29.Rottenberg, Josh. Actress Peggy Lipton, star of 'The Mod Squad' and 'Twin Peaks,' dies at age 72. Los Angeles Times. May 11, 2019.
- 30.Mitovich, Matt Webb. Peggy Lipton, of The Mod Squad and Twin Peaks, Dead at 72. TVLine. May 11, 2019.
- 31.Peggy Lipton, blond star of 'The Mod Squad' and 'Twin Peaks,' dies at 72. The Arizona Republic. Associated Press.
- 32.The Complete Ode Recordings - Peggy Lipton: Songs, Reviews, Credits. AllMusic.
- 33.Peggy Lipton. AllMovie.
- 34.Peggy Lipton. BFI.
- 35.Saperstein, Pat. Peggy Lipton, 'Mod Squad' and 'Twin Peaks' Star, Dies at 72. Variety. May 12, 2019.
- 36.Peggy Lipton. TV Guide.
- 37.Fitzpatrick, Kevin. Peggy Lipton, Star of The Mod Squad and Twin Peaks, Dies at 72. Vanity Fair. May 12, 2019.
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