Leigh Taylor-Young

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Leigh Taylor-Young (born January 25, 1945) is an American actress who has appeared on stage, film, podcast, radio, and television.

I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968), The Horsemen (1971), The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971), Soylent Green (1973), and Jagged Edge (1985).

Early life

Young was born in Washington, D.C., and she gave the surname Young, the surname of her stepfather, Donald E. Young, a Detroit executive, to her. Dey Young, sculptor Dey Young, and writer/producer Lance Young were among her older siblings. The siblings were born in Oakland, Michigan. In 1962, Leigh graduated from Groves High School in Beverly Hills, Michigan. She spent a summer swapping scenery, acting, directing, and sweeping up at a Detroit little theater before attending Northwestern University as an economics major. She left Northwestern to pursue a full-time acting career, making her Broadway debut in 3 Bags Full.

About dropping out of college, she said:

Personal life

In 1967, Taylor-Young married Ryan O'Neal, her Peyton Place co-star. Their wedding was spontanious: An ABC manager gave them the opportunity to marry at his house when they were in Hawaii for a Peyton Place promotion. Patrick, the couple's son, was born of the marriage. In 1971, Leigh and O'Neal divorced. She has two grandchildren by her son.

In January 2013, she married John Morton at the Los Angeles headquarters of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness. She is anordained minister in the Movement of Inner Awareness, which was initiated by the late John-Roger Hinkins and now led by her husband.

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Career

Taylor-Young received her first big break in 1966 when she appeared on the primetime soap opera Peyton Place as Rachel Welles. Allison MacKenzie's character was introduced in the show as a replacement for Mia Farrow's character. Everett Chambers, the series's producer, was chosen because of her "high warmth and sweet angelic appearances not unlike Mia." Taylor-Young had been in California for just a few days when she first started working in California. She went to hospital in April 1966 to recover from a bout of pneumonia. She impressed Peyton Place, Paul Monash, with a performance from The Glass Menagerie, and was immediately signed to a seven-year television and multiple-movie deal.

"I'd have liked to remain in New York to establish myself as an actress before heading to Hollywood," she later said.

She met Ryan O'Neal, whom she later married on this network, and it was on this journey that she learned about him. In an interview in April 1967, Taylor-Young had a hard time being on the show, as he explains:

Taylor-Young stopped the soap opera in 1967 due to her pregnancy despite the blitz of attention she received while working on Peyton Place. She moved on to film, obtaining a lucrative seven-year deal with a major studio. Alice B. Toklas (1968) played Mary Banks in her first film role. It was highly profitable, and she received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Most Promising Female Newcomer. She appeared with husband Ryan O'Neal in The Big Bounce (1969).

Her pictures tended to be high-budget films like The Adventurers (1970), based on Harold Robbins' book, and The Horsemen (1971) with leading man Omar Sharif. In the science fiction classic Soylent Green (1973), she is perhaps best known for her appearance as Shirl, the "furniture" girl.

For almost ten years after her appearance in Soylent Green, her career went into a lengthy sabbour as she concentrated on raising her only child, son Patrick.

Taylor-Young made a comeback to film and television, where her appearances and voice often led to casting in roles of an aristocratic bent. She appeared in the Michael Crichton production Looker in 1981. She appeared in Jagged Edge as Virginia Howell in 1985 and appeared in the romantic comedy Secret Admirer.

In addition to her film work, she appeared on such television shows as McCloud, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, Hart to Hart, Hotel and Spenser: For Hire. In 1983, she returned to her soap opera roots, appearing in the short-lived primetime drama The Hamptons. Kimberly Cryder, a recurring character on Dallas, appeared on television and films from 1987-89, her first appearance in a major prime time soap since Peyton Place.

Despite being best known for her film and television work, she has expressed a preference for live theater, where her career began. She appeared opposite Donald Davis in Beckett's one-act plays Catastrophe (included in a trilogy of one-act plays marketed as The Beckett Plays) at the Edinburgh International Festival in 1984. She was a favorite of Samuel Beckett. With the show, she also toured Los Angeles, New York City, and London.

Taylor-Young's film appearances in recent decades have included minor roles in Honeymoon Academy (1990), Bliss (1997) and Slackers (2002), as well as direct-to-video films Addams Family Reunion (1998), Klepto (2003), Spiritual Warriors (2007), and The Wayshower (2011).

Rachel Harris, a mercurial and cougar-ish mayor, was one of her best-known television appearances on CBS' Picket Fences, playing mercurial and cougar-ish mayor Rachel Harris from 1993-1995. In 1994, she received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Support Actress in a Drama Series, as well as a Golden Globe nomination the following year. Katherine Barrett Crane appeared on the soap opera Passions from 2004 to 2007.

Taylor-Young appeared on television shows such as The Young Riders, Murder, She Wrote, Sunset Beach, Malibu Shores, 7th Heaven, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Life. She appeared on Beverly Hills, 90210, The Pretender, and The Sentinel of the United States. She appeared in a number of television films, including Perry Mason's The Case of the Sinister Spirit (1987), Who Gets the Friends? and a Stranger in My Home (1997).

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