Taryn Power
{{Short description|American actress (1953–2020)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Taryn Power
| image = Taryn Power - Portrait (1974).jpg
| imagesize =
| caption = Power in 1974
| birthname = Taryn Stephanie Power
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1953|9|13|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, United States
| death_date = {{death date and age|2020|6|26|1953|9|13}}
| death_place = Viroqua, Wisconsin, United States
| othername = Taryn Power-Greendeer
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1972–1990
| children = 4
| spouse = {{plainlist|
- {{marriage|Norman Seeff|1978|1982|end=divorced}}
- {{marriage|Tony Fox Sales|||end=divorced}}
- {{marriage|William Greendeer|1993||end=divorced}}
}}
| parents = Tyrone Power
Linda Christian
| relatives = Romina Power
(sister)
Tyrone Power Jr.
(half-brother)
Tyrone Power Sr.
(grandfather)
Tyrone Power
(great-great-grandfather)
}}
Taryn Stephanie Power{{Citation needed |date=July 2024}} (September 13, 1953 – June 26, 2020) was an American actress.
Biography
=Early life=
Power was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1953, to actors Tyrone Power and Linda Christian.Deutsch, Linda (Associated Press)(2 January 1975). [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HKMgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mGgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1380,123325&dq= Taryn Power Has No Recollection Of Her Movie-idol Father], Lewiston Evening Journal When her parents divorced in 1956, her mother took Power and her elder sister Romina to live all around the world, mainly spending their childhoods in Italy and Spain.{{cite book | last=Berumen | first=F.J.G. | title=Latino Image Makers in Hollywood: Performers, Filmmakers and Films Since the 1960s | publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers | year=2016 | isbn=978-1-4766-1411-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6OpZBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA102 | access-date=5 November 2019 | page=102}}
File:Romina and Taryn Power.jpg and Taryn Power, guests of the Italian TV show Tutto è pop, Turin, 1972]]
=Career=
Power acted in eight films, the first two in Spanish, the rest mostly English language films. Her most notable roles were as "Valentine De Villefort" in The Count of Monte Cristo (1975), with Richard Chamberlain, Donald Pleasence, and Tony Curtis, and as "Dione" in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977), starring Patrick Wayne and Jane Seymour.
=Personal life=
Power's father died in 1958 of a massive heart attack when she was five. In 1975, she met photographer Norman Seeff in Los Angeles, and eventually married him shortly before the birth of her first child, Tai. They split and eventually divorced in 1982. Power also had two children, Anthony Tyrone and Valentina Fox, with musician Tony Sales (son of comedian Soupy Sales) in the 1980s.Evans, Hilary (10 June 1985). [http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20090942,00.html Tyrone Power's Daughter Taryn Steps into the Family Business], People (magazine) She later married William Greendeer and had a fourth child, Stella Greendeer, on April 21, 1996.[http://www.tyrone-power.com/biography_children.html Ty's Children], tyrone-power.com, Retrieved September 21, 2011
She died from leukemia on June 26, 2020, after a {{frac|4|1|2}}-year battle against the disease.{{cite web|url=https://www.njmmanews.com/farewell-to-taryn-power-romina-powers-younger-sister-and-actress/|website=njmmanews.com|accessdate=30 June 2020|title=Farewell to Taryn Power, Romina Power's younger sister and actress|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200701184805/https://www.njmmanews.com/farewell-to-taryn-power-romina-powers-younger-sister-and-actress/|archive-date=2020-07-01}}
Filmography
| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;"
! colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;" | Film |
| Year
! Film ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 1972
| María | María | |
| 1974
| Un Viaje de locos | Fedora | |
| 1975
| Valentine De Villefort | |
| rowspan=2|1976
| Tracks | Stephanie | |
| House of Pleasure for Women
| Olimpia | Alternative title: Bordella |
| 1977
| Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger | Dione | Alternative title: Sinbad at the World's End |
| 1984
| The Sea Serpent | Margaret | Alternative title: Serpiente de Mar |
| 1990
| Eating | Anita | |
| colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;" | Television |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
| 1977
| The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries | Helene Holstead | 1 episode |
| 1985
| Deborah | 1 episode |
Award nominations
| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;" |
| Year
! Award ! Result ! Category ! Film |
|---|
| 1978
| Nominated | Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger |
References
{{reflist}}
External links
- {{IMDb name|0694470}}
- {{Discogs artist|Taryn Power}}
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Category:Actresses from Los Angeles
Category:American film actresses
Category:American television actresses
Category:Deaths from leukemia in Wisconsin
Category:20th-century American actresses
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