Jennifer O'Neill
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Jennifer O'Neill (born February 20, 1948) is a Brazilian-American actress, model, author, and speaker best known for her appearance in the 1971 film Summer of '42 and modelling for CoverGirl cosmetics, which began in the 1970s.
Early life
In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, O'Neill was born. Her mother was English and her father was a Brazilian of Portuguese, Spanish, and Irish descent. She and her older brother Michael were born in New Rochelle, New York, and Wilton, Connecticut. When she was 14 years old, the family immigrated to New York City. O'Neill tried suicide on Sunday, 1962, because the move would separate her from her dog Mandy and horse Monty — "her whole world." She was first discovered by Ford's modeling company in the same year. She was on the front pages of Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and Seventeen by age 15, earning $80,000 ($717,000 today).
O'Neill, a talented equestrienne, won upwards of 200 ribbons at horse show championships in her teens. She had bought Alezon, a horse that she had modeled for for her modelling fees. In contrast, it had once balked against a wall at a horse show, throwing her out, and breaking her neck and back in three different locations. 83 She attended Manhattan's Professional Children's School and the Dalton School, but she was unable to wed her first husband, IBM executive Dean Rossiter, at age 17.
Personal life
O'Neill has married nine times to eight husbands (she married, divorced, and divorced her sixth husband Richard Alan Brown). She has three children from three husbands.: 95 : 174 : 209
Nick de Noia, an ex-husband, was assassinated in 1987 by one of his former employees.
O'Neill was shot in her home on McClain Street in Bedford, New York, on October 23, 1982. When trying to determine if the weapon was loaded, police officers who interviewed O'Neill discovered she mistakenly shot herself in the abdomen with a.38 caliber revolver at her 30-acre, 25-room French-style home. At the time, her husband, John Lederer, was not in the house when the handgun was fired, but two other people were inside. Sgt. Detective Sgt. Thomas Rothwell was quoted as saying that O'Neill "didn't know much about guns."
O'Neill's 1999 autobiography Surviving Myself, she discusses many aspects of her personal life, including her marriages, work, and her move to her Tennessee farm in the late 1990s. "I wrote the autobiography (her first book) "at the suggestion of her children," she said.
O'Neill is both a Brazilian and a United States citizen.
Career
In 1968, O'Neill appeared in For Love of Ivy, a small film. She appeared in Howard Hawks' film Rio Lobo with her co-star John Wayne in 1970.
Dorothy Walker, the early 20s wife of an airman who has gone off to fight in World War II, was played by O'Neill in the 1971 film Summer of '42. In a 2002 interview, she said that her agent had to fight to even get a reading for the role because the actress had been portrayed as a "older woman" to a "coming of age" 15-year-old boy, and that actresses were only interested in actresses over the age of thirty.
In 1972, she co-starred with Tom Jones in David Winters' television special The Special London Bridge Special.
O'Neill went on to play for the next two decades. She appeared in Hollywood feature films, made-for-television films, and European films.
She appeared in Luchino Visconti's last film, The Innocent, in 1976.
She was originally cast in The Black Hole (1979), but was told she should cut her hair because it would be easier to film the zero-G scenes. She came out, sipping wine after the haircut, and leaving noticeably impaired. After a serious car accident on the way home, she didn't get the job.
O'Neill played in series television as her film career slowed. She appeared in NBC's short-lived 1982 prime time soap opera Bare Essence and appeared lead female on 1984 television show Cover Up. Jon-Erik Hexum, O'Neill's co-star on the Cover Up television series, fatally wounded himself on the show's set on October 12, 1984, unaware that a blank cartridge could also cause severe injury from rising powder gases. He died six days later.
O'Neill is included in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History's Center for Advertising History for her long-serving employment with CoverGirl cosmetics as its model and spokesperson in ads and television commercials.