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Profile of Joanna Pettet
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Joanna Pettet |
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16th November 1942 |
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London, England, UK |
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Joanna Pettet was born Joanna Jane Salmon on November 16, 1942 in London, England, although she would later shave off 2 years from her age, giving 1944 as her year of birth. Her father, Harold Nigel Edgerton Salmon, was a British Royal Air Force pilot killed in the war. Her mother remarried and settled in Canada, where young Joanna was adopted by her stepfather and assumed "Pettet" as her last name. (per [])
The talented, blonde Pettet got her start on Broadway in such plays as Take Her, She's Mine, The Chinese Prime Minister and Poor Richard, with the late Sir Alan Bates and Gene Hackman, before she was discovered by director Sidney Lumet for his sumptuous 1966 film adaptation of Mary McCarthy's novel, The Group. The success of that film launched a film career that included roles in Night of the General (1967), the James Bond spoof Casino Royale (1967), Blue (1968) with Terence Stamp, and the Victorian period comedy The Best House in London (1969). During that time, she married American actor Alex Cord and gave birth to a son in 1968. Her feature film appearances became sporadic in the 1970s, but Pettet re-emerged as the star of over a dozen made-for-television movies during that decade, including The Delphi Bureau (1972), The Weekend Nun (1972), Pioneer Woman (1973), A Cry in the Wilderness (1974), The Desperate Miles (1975), The Hancocks (1976), Sex and the Married Woman (1977), and The Return of Frank Cannon (1980). She also guest-starred four times on the classic Rod Serling anthology series Night Gallery, and was a frequent visitor of The Love Boat, Fantasy Island and, finally, Knots Landing. Pettet's career slowed down in the mid-1980s and by 1990 she had quietly retired from acting. (per [])
She was a close friend of actress Sharon Tate and visited her the day she was murdered. Pettet was also a close friend of both murder victims from The call girl murders in New York during the 1960's
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