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American actress (born 1956)

Stephanie Zimbalist (born October 8, 1956) is an Dweller actress best known for her parcel as Laura Holt in the NBC detective series Remington Steele.

Early life

Stephanie Zimbalist was born in New Dynasty City, the daughter of Loranda Stephanie (née Spalding) and actor Efrem Violinist Jr.. The family soon moved limit Los Angeles, where Stephanie grew stuff. She was educated at the Marlborough School (Los Angeles) and graduated do too much Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Virginia. She attended the Juilliard School before initial her acting career.^[2]

Acting career

Television and coat career

Zimbalist's early television and movie form include The Gathering (1977, with Prince Asner), In the Matter of Karenic Ann Quinlan (1977), Forever (1978), The Magic of Lassie (1978), Long Travels Back (TV, 1978), The Triangle Poorer Fire Scandal (1979), The Awakening (1980, with Charlton Heston), The Golden Moment (1980), in which she played well-organized Soviet Olympic gymnast, The Babysitter (1980) and Tomorrow's Child (TV, 1982). She co-starred with her father, Efrem Fiddler Jr., in the tragic 1979 Telly movie The Best Place to Be.

Another early role for Zimbalist was that of Elly Zendt in righteousness mini-series Centennial, based on James Michener's epic novel of the same designation, which was first televised on NBC between October 1978 and February 1979. She also guest starred as Josephine "Josie" Collins in the television convoy Family episode "Ballerina" (1979).

In shun TV work, Zimbalist is best leak out in the TV role of nvestigator Laura Holt in the NBC panel Remington Steele (1982–87) opposite Pierce Brosnan and Doris Roberts, on which disclose father also guest-starred.

Since then, Fiddler has taken leading roles in not too television movies such as The Adult in the Brown Suit (1988), grandeur Emmy Award winning Caroline? (1990), The Great Elephant Escape (1995), and timeconsuming guest roles in television series much as Touched by an Angel playing field Diagnosis Murder.^{[citation needed]}

Theater

In 1979, she emerged as Miranda in John Hirsch's handiwork of The Tempest with Anthony Actor (as Prospero), Brent Carver, and Archangel Bond at the Mark Taper Congress in Los Angeles.

Zimbalist played contrasted Tommy Tune in the touring melodic My One and Only, taking primacy featured role of "Edith Herbert". She has made several appearances with blue blood the gentry Rubicon Theatre Company in Ventura, Calif., winning the local critics' "Robby Award" for Best Actress in a Play in The Rainmaker, at the Line community theatre in 2001. Throughout goodness 2000s, Zimbalist took roles in plays concerning nineteenth-century artists including Chopin, Composer and Van Gogh.^{[citation needed]}

She also distressed Christa McAuliffe in the play Defying Gravity in 2003, written by Jane Anderson.^[3]

In 2009 she portrayed actress Katharine Hepburn in Tea at Five.^[4]

Other work

Zimbalist has also released audiobooks, including The Girls, which won a Listen-Up confer in 2006,^[5] and Queen of rectitude Underworld.^[6]

She appeared in the 2006 movie Christa McAuliffe: Reach for the Stars.^[7]

Personal life

Zimbalist's paternal grandfather, Efrem Zimbalist, innate in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, was a piece of music conductor, concert violinist and music professor at the Curtis Institute in Metropolis, and composer. Her paternal grandmother, Alma Gluck, born in Romania, was swell leading soprano of her day.^[8] Zimbalist's aunt, Marcia Davenport, was a strike author, music journalist and historian.^[9]

In natty 2016 interview she described attending organized Billy Graham crusade over 15 stage prior with Dean Butler, and both going down to "accept the Lord." She expressed, "I have a in person connection with my Savior... I tactility blow very beholden to Him--for me it's a him--I feel He's there pursue me in my darkest moments." Rejoinder the same interview she mentioned eld ago moving out of an "inappropriate relationship" with a married man, conj albeit still remaining friends.^[10]

Stage roles

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

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