# Ann Turkel

Ann Turkel is an American actress and former model, known for her collaborations with, and marriage to, actor Richard Harris.

## Early life

Born into a Jewish middle-class family and raised in Manhattan, Turkel had, by age 16, studied with both Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse and Philip Burton at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy.

## Career

In the late 1960s, she was photographed for American Vogue. Patrick Lichfield captured images of her on location in the United Kingdom, the Bahamas, and Italy during the early 1970s, and included them in his 1981 book The Most Beautiful Women.
After a brief appearance in the film Paper Lion (1968), her first major role was in the 1974 film, 99 and 44/100% Dead starring her future husband Richard Harris, and they acted together in The Cassandra Crossing (1976), Golden Rendezvous (1977) and Ravagers (1979).
She portrayed comic strip heroine Modesty Blaise in a 1982 TV pilot.
Her other movie roles included Portrait of a Hitman (1979), with Jack Palance, and Humanoids from the Deep (1980), Deep Space (1988) and The Fear (1995). She also played the role of modeling agent and immortal Kristen in "Chivalry", a season four episode of Highlander: The Series.

## Personal life

Turkel and Harris married in 1974 in Beverly Hills. They were divorced in 1982. Despite their divorce, she and Harris remained good friends.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role |
| 1968 | Paper Lion | Susan |
| 1974 | 99 and 44/100% Dead | Buffy |
| 1976 | The Cassandra Crossing | Susan |
| 1977 | Golden Rendezvous | Susan Beresford |
| 1979 | Portrait of a Hitman | Cathey |
| 1979 | Ravagers | Faina |
| 1980 | Humanoids from the Deep | Dr. Susan Drake |
| 1988 | Deep Space | Carla Sandbourn |
| 1995 | The Fear | Leslie |
| 1997 | Touch Me | Linda |
| 2006 | A-List | Star in bar |
| 2006 | Deja Vu | Technician |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1975 | Matt Helm | Maggie Gantry | "Pilot" episode |
| 1978 | Greatest Heroes of the Bible | Delilah | Mini-series episode "Samson & Delilah" |
| 1981 | Death Ray 2000 | Sabina Dorffman | TV movie |
| 1982 | Modesty Blaise | Modesty Blaise | TV movie |
| 1982 | Massarati and the Brain | Diane : Wilma | TV movie |
| 1982 | The Fall Guy | Shawna Ives / Kitty Ives | episode "The Ives Have It" |
| 1982, 1983 | Fantasy Island | Rowena Haversham, Leila Proctor | 2 episodes |
| 1983 | Matt Houston | Maureen Flanders | episode "Here's Another Fine Mess" |
| 1983 | The Love Boat | Stacy Banks | episode "Vicki's Dilemma/Discount Romance/ Loser & Still Champ" |
| 1983–1984, 1985 | Knight Rider | Adrianne Margeaux / Adrianne St. Clair, Bianca Morgan | S2/E9: "Soul Survivor" , S2/E18: "Goliath Returns" , S3/E20: "Knight in Retreat" |
| 1984 | Masquerade | unnamed | episode "Caribbean Holiday" |
| 1984 | The New Mike Hammer | Gail Storrs-Rainey | episode "Catfight" |
| 1985 | Riptide | Denise McKean | episode "Baxter and Boz" |
| 1985 | Street Hawk | Melanie Ryan / Katherine Reese | episode "Female of the Species" |
| 1985 | Hollywood Beat | Lita | "Pilot" episode |
| 1986 | Night Court | Judge Eve Gardner | episode "Contempt of Courting" |
| 1986 | Scarecrow and Mrs. King | Pam Jentry | episode "Three Little Spies" |
| 1986 | Murder, She Wrote | Barbara Bennington | episode "Stage Struck" |
| 1987 | Worlds Beyond | Helen Scott | episode "Captain Randolph" |
| 1991 | White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd | Gloria Swanson | TV movie (uncredited) |
| 1991 | Silk Stalkings | Roxanne Dockweiler aka Roxy The Doxy | "Pilot" episode |
| 1991 | Chance of a Lifetime | Tippi van Norden | TV movie |
| 1992 | Down the Shore | unnamed | episode "Waiting for Aldo" |
| 1994 | RoboCop: The Series | Louise | episode "What Money Can't Buy" |
| 1995 | Highlander | Kristin | episode "Chivalry" |
| 1998 | The Hunger | Woman | episode "A River of Night's Dreaming" |
| 1999 | Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction | Mrs. Richerds | Anthology series episode "E-Mail II/Blood Donor/Epitaph/Stiches in Time/Soldier" |