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Lipton in 1968 | |
| Born | Margaret Ann Lipton (1946-08-30)August 30, 1946 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | May 11, 2019(2019-05-11) (aged 72) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1964–2017 |
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| Father | Harold Lipton |
Margaret Ann Lipton (August 30, 1946 – May 11, 2019) was an American model, actress, and singer. She made appearances in many of the most popular television shows of the 1960s before she landed her defining role asflower child Julie Barnes in the crime dramaThe Mod Squad (1968–1973), for which she was nominated for fourEmmy Awards and fourGolden Globe Awards, winning theGolden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama in 1970.
AfterThe Mod Squad, Lipton married musicianQuincy Jones and began a 15-year hiatus from acting, during which she raised her two children,Kidada andRashida Jones. She returned to acting in 1988, performing in many TV roles, includingNorma Jennings inDavid Lynch'sTwin Peaks.
Margaret Ann Lipton[1] was born into an upper middle-class Jewish family in New York City on August 30, 1946,[2][3][4][5] the daughter of artist Rita Benson (born Rita Hetty Rosenberg) and corporate lawyerHarold Lipton.[6][3] Her paternal grandparents (surnamedLipschitz) were Jewish immigrants from Russia, and her mother was born inDublin,Ireland, to Jewish parents from Latvia.[7][8][9] Lipton was raised inLawrence, Nassau County, New York, onLong Island, with her brothers: Robert, who became an actor, and Kenneth. She attendedLawrence High School before transferring to theProfessional Children's School.[2][10] Sexually abused by an uncle, Lipton was a nervous and withdrawn child with astutter so severe that she was sometimes unable to say her own name.[11][12] In 1964, the family moved to Los Angeles, where Lipton became what she called a "Topanga Canyon hippie" who explored meditation and yoga.[12]
Lipton's father arranged her first modeling jobs in New York, while her mother encouraged her to take acting lessons.[12] At 15, Lipton became aFord Agency model and enjoyed a successful early career.[3] After she and her family moved to Los Angeles in 1964, Lipton signed a contract withUniversal Pictures. She made her television debut at age 19 in theNBC sitcomThe John Forsythe Show (1965).[13] Between 1965 and 1968, she appeared in episodes ofBewitched,The Virginian,[14]The Invaders,[15]The Road West,[16]The F.B.I.,[17]The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,[18] andMr. Novak.[1]

Lipton starred inThe Mod Squad as one of a trio of Los Angeles undercover "hippie cops". Appearing waiflike and vulnerable, as David Hutchings wrote,[3] her performance as "canary with a broken wing" Julie Barnes earned her fourEmmy Award nominations and fourGolden Globe Award nominations during her tenure. In 1971, she won a Golden Globe Award forBest TV Actress in a Drama.[3] Thin with long, straight, ash blonde hair, clad in mini-skirts, bell bottoms, and love beads, Lipton's Julie Barnes became a fashion icon and the hip "it girl" of her time.[19]
AfterThe Mod Squad, Lipton did no full-time acting for 15 years (with the exception of appearing in the made-for-TV movieThe Return of the Mod Squad in 1979). In March 1988, she returned to television as the star of anABC movie,Addicted to His Love.[3] She eventually regained major attention for her performance asNorma Jennings inDavid Lynch's TV seriesTwin Peaks (1990–1991), and subsequently appeared in many TV shows, including recurring roles inCrash andPopular. In 2017 she reprised her character of Norma Jennings in theTwin Peaks revival.[20] Also in 2017, she appeared in an episode ofAngie Tribeca as the mother of the title character played by her daughter Rashida Jones.[21]
As a singer, three of Lipton's singles landed on theBillboard charts: "Stoney End" (No. 121 Bubbling Under Hot 100, 1968, later a Top Ten hit forBarbra Streisand in 1970) and "Lu" (1970),[22] both written byLaura Nyro. Her "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" (1970) was written byDonovan. "Stoney End" is included in her 1968 albumPeggy Lipton (Ode Records), which was released on CD on July 29, 2014, by RealGone Music, along with other singles and previously unreleased material (nineteen tracks in all).
Lipton and her husband Quincy Jones, along withAlan and Marilyn Bergman, co-wrote the 1984Frank Sinatra hit, "L.A. Is My Lady".[22][23]
At the age of 18, she began using drugs in an attempt to alleviate her depression.[24][25] Lipton was briefly linked withPaul McCartney before he met his wifeLinda. They met first on 24 August 1964, when Lipton was 17.[26][27] After Lipton married musician and producerQuincy Jones in 1974, she took a hiatus from acting to concentrate on her family. The couple had two daughters,Kidada (born 1974) andRashida (born 1976), who both became actresses.[28] Lipton and Jones separated in 1986, and divorced in 1990.[29][30]
After being diagnosed in 2004, Lipton died ofcolon cancer in Los Angeles on May 11, 2019, at the age of 72.[18][31][32][1]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1968 | Blue | Laurie Kramer | [37][38] |
| 1988 | War Party | TV correspondent | |
| Purple People Eater | Mom | ||
| 1989 | Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects | Kathleen Crowe | |
| 1990 | Fatal Charm | Jane Sims | Video |
| 1991 | True Identity | Rita | |
| 1992 | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | Norma Jennings | [33] |
| 1997 | The Postman | Ellen March | [14] |
| 2000 | The Intern | Roxanne Rochet | |
| Skipped Parts | Laurabel Pierce | ||
| 2001 | Jackpot | Janice | |
| 2010 | When in Rome | Priscilla | [31] |
| 2017 | A Dog's Purpose | Adult Hannah | Final film role |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Bewitched | Secretary | "Your Witch Is Showing"[31] |
| Mr. Novak | Selma | "And Then I Wrote..."[1] | |
| The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Mary Winters | "Night Fever"[31] | |
| The John Forsythe Show | Joanna | "Super Girl"[31] | |
| 1966 | The Virginian | Dulcie Colby | "The Wolves Up Front, the Jackals Behind"[31] |
| 1967 | Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | Oralee Prentiss | "Willie and the Yank: The Deserter", "Willie and the Yank: The Mosby Raiders"[citation needed] |
| Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Jill | "A Song Called Revenge"[citation needed] | |
| The Road West | Jenny Grimmer | "Elizabeth's Oddyssey"[16] | |
| The Invaders | Bride | "Wall of Crystal"[15] | |
| 1968–1973 | The Mod Squad | Julie Barnes | Main role: 123 episodes[39] |
| 1969 | The Andy Williams Show | Herself | 1 episode |
| 1971 | The Dick Cavett Show | Herself | 1 episode |
| 1979 | The Return of the Mod Squad | Julie Barnes | TV film[39] |
| 1990 | The Hitchhiker | Helen | "Working Girl"[citation needed] |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Herself | 1 episode | |
| 1990–1991 | Twin Peaks | Norma Jennings | Main role: 30 episodes[39] |
| 1992 | Secrets | Olivia Owens | TV miniseries[28] |
| 1993 | Angel Falls | Hadley Larson | Main role[39] |
| 1994 | The Spider and the Fly | Helen Stroud | TV film[39] |
| Deadly Vows | Nancy Weston | TV film[39] | |
| Wings | Miss Laurie Jenkins | "Miss Jenkins"[39] | |
| 1996 | Justice for Annie: A Moment of Truth Movie | Carol Mills | TV film[39] |
| 2000 | The 70s | Gloria Steinem | TV film[39] |
| Popular | Kelly Foster | Recurring role[14] | |
| 2004 | Alias | Olivia Reed | Recurring role[31] |
| 2005 | Cuts | Marsha | "The Turkey Triangle"[39] |
| 2007 | Rules of Engagement | Fay | "A Visit from Fay"[39] |
| 2009 | Crash | Susie | Recurring role[31] |
| 2012 | House of Lies | Phoebe Van Der Hooven | "Prologue and Aftermath"[39] |
| 2014 | Psych | Scarlett Jones | "1967: A Psych Odyssey"[39] |
| 2016–2017 | Angie Tribeca | Peggy Tribeca | 2 episodes[40] |
| 2017 | Twin Peaks | Norma Jennings | 5 episodes[31] |
| Claws | Peggy Lipton | "Self-Portrait"[14] | |
| There's... Johnny! | Evelyn Greenfield | "Owed to Joy"[citation needed] |
The girl from uptight Lawrence, L. I., was now cool, worldly; Peggy Lipton had become, in the stone-age language of the sixties, a groovy chick, andMod Squad had found its Julie.