Jocelyn Seagrave
{{short description|American film and television actress}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2024}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Jocelyn Seagrave
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| occupation = Actress
| yearsactive = 1990–present
| spouse = {{Marriage|Ted Fundoukos
|1993}}
| father = Sterling Seagrave
| mother = Wendy Law-Yone
| relatives = Gordon Seagrave (paternal grandfather)
| children = 2
}}
Jocelyn Seagrave is an American film and television actress, best known for playing Julie Camaletti on Guiding Light and Jessica Mitchell on Fox's Pacific Palisades.
Early life
Seagrave's father was American author and historian Sterling Seagrave and her paternal grandfather, Gordon Stifler Seagrave, was the author of Burma Surgeon.Seagrave, Gordon S., Burma Surgeon, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 1943{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,894462,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110205044123/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,894462,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 5, 2011 |title=The Old Man |access-date=January 23, 2018 |author=Dr. Gordon Stifler Seagrave |magazine=Time | date=March 17, 1961}} Seagrave's mother, Wendy Law-Yone, was born in 1947 in Mandalay, Burma, she was raised and educated in Bangkok, Thailand is now living in the United States.{{cite web |url=http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/lawyone_wendy.html |title=Biography of Wendy Law-Yone |publisher=The Voice |access-date=May 27, 2008 }} Seagrave has English, Chinese and Burmese ancestry on her maternal side.{{cite journal | title = Beyond Rangoon: an interview with Wendy Law-Yone. | journal = Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States | date = December 22, 2002 | access-date = October 12, 2008 | url = http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-10049175_ITM}} Her maternal grandfather, Edward Michael Law-Yone, was a journalist and writer, as well as the founder of The Nation, once the leading English-language newspaper in Burma.{{cite news |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2278/is_4_27/ai_97331229 |title=Beyond Rangoon: An interview with Wendy Law-Yone |last=Bow |first=Leslie |publisher=FindArticles |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070301134923/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2278/is_4_27/ai_97331229 |archive-date=March 1, 2007 }} Seagrave grew up in Thailand and later in the US. She studied martial arts, and earning her black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and English literature at the University of Virginia.{{cite web |title=WHITE HAS MADE PEOPLE LAUGH IN MANY TV SHOWS |url=https://greensboro.com/white-has-made-people-laugh-in-many-tv-shows/article_5ab79c81-a1f9-5043-b36d-4796b63ebb93.html |website=Greensboro News and Record |language=en |date=January 10, 1992}}
Personal life
In 1993, Seagrave married Ted Fundoukos from Akron, Ohio.{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AK&s_site=ohio&p_multi=AK&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB6304742DEF6DD&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Novelist's life a thriller too|work=Beacon Journal|publisher=April 3, 1994|access-date=August 16, 2011|quote=Jocelyn Seagrave who plays Julie ... is married to a former Akron man Ted Fundoukos}}
Filmography
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0780470|name=Jocelyn Seagrave}}
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Category:American film actresses
Category:American television actresses
Category:American soap opera actresses
Category:Actresses from Washington, D.C.
Category:University of Virginia alumni
Category:Thai emigrants to the United States
Category:American people of Anglo-Burmese descent
Category:American people of Burmese descent
Category:American actors of Chinese descent
Category:American people of English descent
Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:21st-century American actresses