US actress
She was the mistress of Dallas villain JR: Gayle Hunnicutt is dead
Gayle Hunnicutt in 1968
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Her best-known role was alongside “Dallas” villain JR. Gayle Hunnicutt can look back on an impressive film career. The actress has passed away at the age of 80.
“Dallas” actress Gayle Hunnicutt has died at the age of 80, according to media reports. She gained international fame in the role of Vanessa Beaumont – the affair of serial villain JR Ewing – between 1989 and 1991. Especially in the 1980s, she repeatedly had guest appearances in popular television series – including “Taxi” or “Love Boat”.
Hunnicutt had already died on Thursday, reported, among other things, the “Guardian”. Details of the circumstances and the place of her death were not initially known.
Gayle Hunnicutt co-starred with Peter Fonda
A talent scout discovered the Texan, who was born in 1943, while she was studying theater at the University of California in Los Angeles. Hunnicutt made her television screen debut in 1966 in the US series Mister Roberts, and a short time later she starred alongside Peter Fonda and Nancy Sinatra in the rocker film The Wild Angels.
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Hunnicutt moved to Great Britain as part of her marriage to British actor David Hemmings (“Blow Up”). After divorcing Hemmings, Hunnicutt married journalist Sir Simon Jenkins. In 2009, the couple divorced.
In addition to her best-known roles as Alix von Hessen-Darmstadt in the miniseries “Fall der Adler” and as Irene Adler in the production of “Sherlock Holmes” from 1984, Hunnicutt was also in the TV version of the horror thriller “Fantômas” (1980). to see. Hunnicutt is survived by two sons and five grandchildren.