1. Gayle Hunnicutt, Lady Jenkins was an American film, television and stage actress.
17 Facts About Gayle Hunnicutt
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The daughter of Colonel Sam Lloyd Hunnicutt and Mary Virginia Hunnicutt, she was born in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Gayle Hunnicutt attended the University of California, Los Angeles on a scholarship to study English literature and theatre.
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Gayle Hunnicutt worked as a fashion model, then became an actress.
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Gayle Hunnicutt portrayed Emaline Fetty, a con woman trying to extort money from the Clampetts in two episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies in 1966.
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Gayle Hunnicutt co-starred with James Garner in the detective film Marlowe, in which her character was a glamorous Hollywood actress.
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Gayle Hunnicutt moved to England with husband David Hemmings in 1970.
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Gayle Hunnicutt played Charlotte Stant in the Jack Pulman television adaptation of Henry James's The Golden Bowl.
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Gayle Hunnicutt played Ann Barrett in The Legend of Hell House and Tsarina Alexandra in the television miniseries Fall of Eagles.
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Gayle Hunnicutt appeared as a housewife and mother in an episode of The Martian Chronicles in 1979.
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Gayle Hunnicutt appeared as Irene Adler, opposite Jeremy Brett, in the first episode of the TV series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in 1984.
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Gayle Hunnicutt appeared in another Marlowe mystery in an episode of HBO's Philip Marlowe, Private Eye, this time starring Powers Boothe.
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Gayle Hunnicutt had a supporting role in the thriller Target, co-starring Gene Hackman and Matt Dillon.
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Gayle Hunnicutt returned to the United States in 1989 to play the role of Vanessa Beaumont in Dallas, making semi-regular appearances until 1991.
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In 2012, Gayle Hunnicutt was featured in an episode of the HGTV reality show Selling London, in which she presented the Primrose Hill property where she and her second husband, journalist and editor Simon Jenkins, lived for three decades.
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On November 16,1968, Gayle Hunnicutt married British actor David Hemmings, with whom she had a son, actor Nolan Hemmings.
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Gayle Hunnicutt died on August 31,2023, at the age of 80 in London.