1. Elizabeth Ward Gracen was born on Elizabeth Grace Ward, April 3,1961 and is an American actress and beauty pageant contestant who won the title of Miss America in 1982.
17 Facts About Elizabeth Gracen
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Elizabeth Gracen was a junior accounting major at Arkansas Tech University at the time she entered the Miss America contest.
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Elizabeth Gracen won the titles of Miss Arkansas in 1981 and Miss America in 1982.
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Elizabeth Gracen made her professional feature film debut in Three For The Road with Charlie Sheen.
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Elizabeth Gracen starred in Lower Level and Discretion Assured with Michael York.
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On television, Elizabeth Gracen has appeared in Shelley Duvall's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Sidney Sheldon's The Sands of Time, and The Death of the Incredible Hulk.
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Elizabeth Gracen appeared with a starring role in the series Extreme for NBC and the syndicated series Renegade and Queen of Swords.
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Elizabeth Gracen's best-known acting role has been as the recurring character Amanda, a 1,200-year-old immortal, in the series Highlander: The Series and its spin-off series Highlander: The Raven.
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Elizabeth Gracen began doing voiceover work for Blue Hours Productions, which has revived the classic radio anthology Suspense, which airs on Sirius XM.
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In 2012, Elizabeth Gracen did a character voice-over in the Malaysian animated science fiction film War of the Worlds: Goliath.
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In January 2016, Elizabeth Gracen established Flapper Press and self-published Shalilly, a young adult fantasy novel.
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Elizabeth Gracen made her directorial debut with a documentary short, "The Damn Deal," about three young drag queens from Arkansas who compete in female impersonator beauty pageants.
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Elizabeth Gracen married Jon Birmingham in 1982, and they divorced in 1984.
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Elizabeth Gracen was married at the time, as was he.
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In 1992, rumors swirled that Elizabeth Gracen had had an affair with Clinton.
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At first, Elizabeth Gracen dismissed this claim ; however, in spring 1998 Elizabeth Gracen recanted her six-year-old denial and stated she had a one-night stand with Clinton in 1983.
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However, Elizabeth Gracen eluded the subpoena and was at one point able to avoid it because Highlander: The Raven was being filmed outside of the US.