Sharon Hugueny
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| Born |
Sharon Elizabeth Hugueny February 29, 1944 Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Died | July 3, 1996 (aged 52) Lake Arrowhead, California |
| Cause of death | Cancer |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1959–1974 |
| Spouse(s) |
Robert Evans (m. 1961–1964; divorced) Raymond Ross (m. 1968–1974, 1 son; divorced) Gordon Cornell Layne (m. 1976–until her death in 1996) |
Sharon Hugueny (February 29, 1944 — July 3, 1996) was an American actress who had a brief film and television career during the 1960s, appearing in nineteen TV episodes and four feature films. The last gave her a co-starring role alongside Peter Fonda in 1964 as one of the title characters in The Young Lovers. Other than a single TV guest shot, she had been away from the cameras for nearly a decade, when an attempted return to filmmaking was cut short by a crippling automobile accident in 1977.
A native of Los Angeles, Sharon Elizabeth Hugueny, born on a leap day, became interested in the arts, particularly acting, in her early teens. She took language and ballet classes, had written a play at age 14 and, a year later, in 1959, was attending San Fernando Valley State College as a student in its Teenage Drama Workshop. Having co-starred in a staging of Madge Miller's Chinese fantasy, Land of the Dragon, she was seen in the Workshop's production of James Leo Herlihy's Broadway play about teen pregnancy, Blue Denim, by the head of Warner Bros. talent department, Solly Baiano who, with her parents' permission, arranged a meeting with producer-director Delmer Daves, then in the midst of preparing Parrish, a big-budget vehicle for the studio's new heartthrob, Troy Donahue. Describing her as "a lovely little Madonna with black hair and deep blue eyes", Daves concluded that she presented the desired appearance and personality to be one of Donahue's romantic conquests in the film, and introduced her to studio head Jack L. Warner, who saw to it that a contract-signing ceremony was ready for February 29, 1960, her sixteenth birthday.
1960 was a very busy year for Warner Bros. which had a large roster of contract performers appearing in an assembly-line-style mass production of TV episodes and theatrical features. In the eight-year period between 1955 and 1963, the studio's TV arm, Warner Bros. Television, provided ABC network with nineteen shows, including eight western and four detective series. Hugueny was enrolled in the studio's school to continue her education and was also immediately put to work, appearing over the next two years in twelve installments of six Warners' series as well as playing supporting roles in two features. During this period her career was sidelined by a brief marriage to Warners contractee Robert Evans and a move with him to New York City.
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