Kim Darby
| Kim Darby | |
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Darby as a guest-star on Marcus Welby, M.D. and Owen Marshall, Counsellor at Law in 1974
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| Born |
July 8, 1947 Los Angeles, California, US |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1962–present |
| Spouse(s) |
James Stacy (m. 1968; div. 1969) James Westmoreland (m. 1970; div. 1970) |
| Children | 1 |
Kim Darby (born July 8, 1947) is an American actress best known for her role as Mattie Ross in the film True Grit (1969).
Darby was born Deborah Zerby in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of professional dancers Inga (Wiere) and Jon Zerby (the "Dancing Zerbys" or "Dancing Zerbies"). Her father nicknamed her Derby saying "I thought Derby Zerby would be a great stage name". Her mother was from Budapest. Her mother's siblings were comedians who performed as the Wiere Brothers.
Darby performed as a singer and dancer under the name "Derby Zerby".
Believing she could not "hope for serious important roles in films with a name like Derby Zerby" Darby renamed herself - "Kim" from Rudyard Kipling's book of that name, and "Darby", from "Derby".
Darby began acting at age fifteen. Her first appearance was as a dancer in the film Bye Bye Birdie (1963). Among her best-known roles are True Grit, in which she played a fourteen-year-old when she was twenty-one years of age; Gunsmoke (1967 episodes "The Lure" and "Vengeance"); Bonanza (1967 episode "The Sure Thing"); The One and Only (1978); Better Off Dead (1985); and Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995).
Darby's television roles included two appearances on the NBC series Mr. Novak, starring James Franciscus; she was cast as Julie Dean in "To Lodge and Dislodge" (1963) and as Judy Wheeler in "The Silent Dissuaders" (1965). Darby also appeared about this time on The Eleventh Hour, The Fugitive, The Donna Reed Show, Ironside, and in the first season of Star Trek as the title character in "Miri".
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