Stefanie Powers
| Stefanie Powers | |
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Powers on March 7, 2010
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| Born |
Stefanie Zofya Paul November 2, 1942 Hollywood, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Taffy Paul |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1958–present |
| Spouse(s) |
Gary Lockwood (1966–1972) Patrick De La Chenais (1993–1999) |
Stefanie Powers (born November 2, 1942) is an American actress best known for her role as Jennifer Hart in the 1980s television series Hart to Hart.
Powers was possibly born Stefanie Zofya Paul in Hollywood, California, though her name is often given as Stefania Zsofia (or Zofia) Federkiewicz. In her autobiography she says "Moje prawdzie nazwisko to Federkiewicz" ("My real (Polish) name is Federkiewicz").
Her parents divorced during her childhood. Powers was estranged from her father, whom she barely references and whose name is never mentioned in her memoir, One from the Hart, in which she refers to the "tension and unhappiness created by my father's presence". Her father was a Jewish immigrant from eastern Europe. She remained extremely close throughout her life to her mother, born Juliana Dimitria Golan (1912–2009) in New York of Polish-Jewish descent. Her mother, who died in Los Angeles from pneumonia at 96 years old, would be known late in life and in local obituaries as Julie Powers. Stefanie Powers had an elder brother, Jeffrey Julian Paul (1940–2013), as well as a half-sister, Charlene Groman. Powers was a cheerleader at Hollywood High School; one of her schoolmates was Nancy Sinatra. In 1965, using the alias Taffy Paul, she made an obscure independent film, The Young Sinner.
Powers appeared in several motion pictures in the early 1960s in secondary roles such as the thriller Experiment in Terror, If a Man Answers, and (1963). She played a schoolgirl in Tammy Tell Me True (1961), and Bunny, the police chief's daughter, in Palm Springs Weekend (1963). She appeared in the 1962 hospital melodrama The Interns, and its sequel, The New Interns in 1964. In 1965, she played opposite Tallulah Bankhead in Die! Die! My Darling (originally released in England as Fanatic).
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