Lee Purcell

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Biography

Actress

  • Primary profession
  • Actress·producer·director
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Female
  • Birth date
  • 15 June 1947
  • Place of birth
  • Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point
  • Education
  • Stephens College

Movies

TV

Books

Trivia

Her son, Dylan Purcell was briefly an actor, and appeared with his mother in The Unknown .

Began dancing at the age of three years, performed/traveled with a traveling variety troupe at 13, had solo dance numbers in the feature film Almost Summer and in the "MacGyver" episode, "MacGyver" {Dalton, Jack of Spies (#2.17)} .

Starred opposite Hollywood dynasties fathers and sons: Kirk Douglas -Michael Douglas , Lloyd Bridges -Beau Bridges.

Lee is of French, Scots-Irish, British, Native American, North African, Iberian Peninsulan and Scandinavian ancestries.

Ms. Purcell is the godmother to Celine Eckelberry who is the daughter of the late actress Karen Black and Stephen Eckelberry , and Ms. Purcell is also godmother to Blacks son Hunter Carson.

Ms. Purcell began professional modeling as a child model for Neiman-Marcus while attending pre-school and kindergarten when living in Dallas, Texas.

Best friend and onetime roommate of Karen Black.

Played 2 characters with the last name Colter: Andrea Colter in an episode of Matlock, and Angie Colter in an episode of Bonanza.

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