Marsha Hunt

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Marsha Hunt (born April 15, 1946) is an American actress, novelist, guitarist, and former model who has spent most of her time in Britain and Ireland.

She rose to national prominence in London as Dionne in the long-running rock musical Hair.

Karis' sole child had close friendships with Marc Bolan and Mick Jagger, who is the father of her only child. The Rolling Stones' controversial hit song "Brown Sugar" was based on Hunt.

She has written three books as well as three volumes of autobiography, which include a candid account of being breast cancer sufferer.

Early life

Hunt was born in 1946 and lived in North Philadelphia, near 23rd and Columbia, for the first 13 years of her life, then in Germantown and Mount Airy. Hunt told The Philadelphia Inquirer that she remembers Philadelphia with ferociousness, particularly the "Philadelphia steak sandwiches and the bad boys on the basketball court."

Inez Hunt's mother, Inez, was her primary parent and worked as a librarian in a local library. Blaire Theodore Hunt, Jr., Hunt's father, was one of America's first black psychiatrists, but he didn't live with Hunt; she found out when she was 15 years old that he had taken his own life three years earlier. Hunt was brought up by her mother, aunt, and grandmother; three strong but not so different people. Hunt calls her mother Inez "highly educated and assui-minded," her Aunt Thelma "very Catholic but very glamorous," and her grandmother Edna as a "very ardent...ass-kicking" independent Southern woman.

Hunt attributes her learning that she was not materialistic to her experience. Hunt did a good job in school, and her family put a great deal of emphasis on academic results. The family moved to Kensington, California, which Hunt also refers to as home, so that her brother and sister could attend Oakland High School and prepare to attend the University of California, Berkeley. Hunt went to Berkeley, California, in 1964, where she joined Jerry Rubin on demonstration marches against the Vietnam War. "They were sitting in for the Free Speech Movement, smoking pot, trying with acid, lining up to take Oriental philosophy classes, daring to co-habit, and going to ballets in San Francisco," she recalled in her book "Unefeated.

Personal life

Hunt claims that the biggest misconception people have about her is that she is wealthy, though she describes herself as "rich in spirit." Hunt has remained true to her belief that money is not important for happiness, and she has lived the "writing life" for the past two decades. She loves the privacy of being alone, but she finds that being single means she has encounters and experiences she would not have had if she were married, where some might not like to intrude, and where she would have to co-ordinate her schedule with another. Hunt has lived in Ireland since 1995. She lives in France, where she owns a house in the countryside about 60 miles from Paris.

When Hunt came to Europe, she discovered that people there called her an American, not an African American or Black. She herself describes her skin color as "oak with a hint of maple" and adds that "out of the many races I know include -- African, American Indian, German Jew, and Irish—only the African was acknowledged." Hunt invented her own word to describe herself, based on the French word melange (mixture) and the word melanin: Melangian.

Hunt said in 1991 that the black community has a pain inflicted on itself, which it does not want to share openly. She also claims that living in the United States for the bulk of her life has made her a foreigner. "I'm afraid to walk through Harlem... more afraid than you," she said, because if I walked through Harlem with the strange shoes and the strange accent, I'd get my butt kicked faster than you." I'm the betrayer in a sense.

Hunt is on display at the National Museum of African History and Culture, a Smithsonian Institution museum in Washington, D.C., which opened in 2016 at a dedication led by then President Barack Obama.

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