Peggy Lipton

This beautiful blonde leading lady became known as the female member of TV's "The Mod Squad" (ABC, 1968-73), for which she earned five Emmy nominations. In 1974, Lipton married producer/musician Quincy Jones and took a hiatus from acting to raise a family. In the late 1980s, after her divorce from Jones, she resurfaced on the big screen as a TV reporter in "War Party" (1988) and went on to play diner owner Norma Jennings on the oddball serial "Twin Peaks" (ABC, 1990-91), a role she reprised in the feature "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" (1992). Lipton did not have much success with the subsequent series "Angel Falls" (CBS, 1993), a short-lived soap opera in which she played a coach's wife. Since then, she has made appearances in a handful of TV-movies and turned up in Kevin Costner's overblown, critically-derided epic "The Postman" (1997).

• Born:
  August 30, 1946 in New York, New York
• Job Titles:
  Actor

Family

• Brother: Kenneth Lipton.

Milestones

• 1962 Signed with modeling agency Eileen Ford at age 15 (date approximate)
• 1964 Moved with family to Los Angeles at age 17; went under contract with Universal (date approximate)
• 1965 First sizable TV acting assignment, "The John Forsythe Show"
• 1968 Starred as Julie Barnes in TV series, "The Mod Squad"
• 1968 First film appearance, "Blue" (with Terence Stamp)
• 1974 Took hiatus from acting
• 1979 Appeared in TV-movie, "The Return of the Mod Squad"
• 1988 Returned to film, "War Party"
• 1990 Co-starred as Norma Jennings in TV series, "Twin Peaks"
• 1993 Was a series regular on the short-lived CBS series "Angel Falls"
• 1996 Co-starred in the NBC TV-movie "Justice For Annie: A Moment of Truth Movie"
• 1997 Had supporting role in "The Postman"
• 2000 Had recurring role as a mother reuniting with a child she had abandoned several years earlier on episodes of "Popular" (The WB)
• 2000 Played supporting role in "Skipped Parts"
• 2000 Portrayed Gloria Steinem in the NBC miniseries "The '70s"
• 2002 Acted on stage in L.A. with brother Robert and daughter Rashida Jones in the one-act play "Pitching to the Star"
• First TV appearance, "Bewitched"; had one line "You're late"
• Grew up in Lawrence, Long Island, New York