Peggy Lipton is dead to me

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Wasn’t she involved in s scandal? Too lazy to check. She was ravishing in her prime.

Nooooooooooo

Aw not Peggy. Damn.

Much too young. What a lovely woman.

Link? What happened? Did her cancer come back?

Oh no! Sucks, 72 is relatively young these days. She was a pretty cool lady.

I was just thinking about her anecdote from her book, where she was called down to Paul McCartney's hotel room, and then found him there with Linda.

Well I guess so r6.

Wow. I am sad

She made delicious iced tea.

GOD, she was talentless.

Actress and former model Peggy Lipton, who rose to stardom in the late 1960s on the counterculture police series “The Mod Squad” and later starred on TV’s “Twin Peaks,” has died.

Her death from cancer was announced Saturday by Kidada and Rashida Jones, her daughters from a marriage to famed music producer Quincy Jones.

“She made her journey peacefully with her daughters and nieces by her side,” Lipton’s daughters said in a statement to The Times. “We feel so lucky for every moment we spent with her.”

Born in New York on Aug. 30, 1946, Lipton began modeling at age 15 and quickly found herself in demand. At age 19, she made her television debut on the sitcom “The John Forsythe Show,” going on to make appearances on such series as “Bewitched,” “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour” and “The Virginian.”

The waifish, blond Lipton had just turned 21 when she rocketed to fame in 1968 as the street-smart flower child Julie Barnes, one of a trio of Los Angeles undercover “hippie cops” on the ABC crime series “The Mod Squad.”

One of pop culture’s first efforts to reckon seriously with the counterculture — and one of the first TV shows to feature an interracial cast — the series, which costarred Michael Cole and Clarence Williams III, dealt with issues such as domestic violence, abortion, police brutality, the Vietnam War and drugs. Over five seasons, the series earned Lipton, one of the “it” girls of her time, four Emmy nominations and a 1971 Golden Globe award for best actress in a TV drama.

Her role and later marriage to Jones, who is black, put Lipton at the center of the passions of a restive America dealing with racism and a post-World War II generation who were breaking free from their parents. The “Mod Squad’s” edgy music and hip slang marked a significant shift from “Gunsmoke” and “Leave It To Beaver.” But while the show turned the mini-skirt-and-bellbottoms-clad Lipton into a fashion icon, she found the spotlight uncomfortable.

“I never saw myself as trend-setting,” Lipton told The Times in 1993. “We were always working. Fame really drove me into my house. I was very paranoid. I didn’t like going out. I had no idea how to be comfortable with the press. I was very young. It was really hard for me.”

Lipton parlayed her role on “The Mod Squad” into a singing career, enjoying chart success with her cover versions of “Stoney End” and “Lu” by Laura Nyro and “Wear Your Love Like Heaven” by Donovan.

In 1974, Lipton married Jones and, with the exception of a 1979 “Mod Squad” reunion TV movie, stepped away from her career to focus on raising a family. The pair’s daughters, Kidada and Rashida, would both become actors, the latter gaining fame on the comedy series “The Office” and “Parks and Recreation.”

After Lipton and Jones divorced in 1989, Lipton decided to return to acting, landing the role of Norma Jennings on the cult TV series “Twin Peaks.”

“It was very scary,” Lipton told The Times in 1993. “I had a push-pull thing inside me that I wanted to do it…. I had become so insulated in my world as a mother, that I didn’t know how to pick up the phone and call anybody to put myself out there.”

She and Clarence Williams III made cameo appearances in a 1999 big-screen version of "The Mod Squad" that starred Claire Danes, Omar Epps and Giovanni Ribisi. In her 2005 memoir “Breathing Out,” Lipton wrote of her struggles with fame and the racism she and Jones faced as an interracial couple and revealed that she had been diagnosed with and treated for colon cancer the previous year.

In recent years, Lipton continued to appear in occasional supporting roles in films such as “When in Rome” and “A Dog’s Purpose.”

“We can’t put all of our feelings into words right now, but we will say: Peggy was and will always be our beacon of light, both in this world and beyond,” her daughters said in a statement Saturday. “She will always be a part of us.”

Damn, Rashida Jones's mother dies and they cancel her sitcom on the same day.

I’m sorry, “Kidada?”

She was , rightly or wrongly, considered the epitome of 60s cool.

Michael Cole was hot. Dead or alive?

R1 you mean- Linc

I feel like Peggy is being punished for giving birth to the antichrist known as Rashida Jones.

I remember her early 70s popularity though I was a child then.

I feel Susan Dey should share some memories and sympathy.

who?

The show she starred in had one of the most epic intros ever.

With Lizsha

One white, one black,....

Sad news. Such a stunning woman her whole life. RIP.

They're not saying if it's the colon cancer she had in 2004 or a different cancer.

If it's the former, then both she and Olivia Newton-John originally "survived" a cancer that came back as Stage IV more than a decade later. Sad and scary.

Peggy was so beautiful. May she Rest In Peace.

I always enjoyed Rashida in PARKS & REC and elsewhere. She always projects intelligence and great humor to me. Very likeable.

Kidada is an actress but I don't recall having seen her in anything.

Good for Peggy for achieving fame, knowing when to step out of the limelight (and back in), and raising (from the sounds of it) two great, level-headed kids.

R25, it never really leaves. When doctors declare patients cancer-free it's a phrase more than a fact.

Anyway, RIP, Peggy. I can't believe Quincy outlived you.

"She was , rightly or wrongly, considered the epitome of 60s cool."

I don't know about "cool" but I thought she was the epitome of 60s style beauty, what with her beautiful, natural looking face and long blonde hair parted in the middle. She aged well, too. She stayed beautiful a long time.

Still beautiful in TWIN PEAKS, 20 years after MOD SQUAD.

RIP beautiful lady

I see a lot of Peggy in both daughters.

Here's Kidada.

RIP.

[quote] Lipton parlayed her role on “The Mod Squad” into a singing career, enjoying chart success with her cover versions of “Stoney End” and “Lu” by Laura Nyro and “Wear Your Love Like Heaven” by Donovan.

Exactly which chart was that?

With family.

Her daughters are almost her twins, in terms of facial structure.

They really lucked out, because Quincy was nothing to look at.

Genetics are an astounding thing.

Here's her version of "Stoney End." Not bad.

Back when every tv stah had to be a pop stah too.

There will be a Mod Squad reunion but with Busy Phillip in the Julie Barnes role.

Posting only because OP is adhering to the DL title formula for dead people.

Although the word “dead” should have been capitalized.

She still looked great in the Twin Peaks reboot a few years ago

Did Quincy give her the ass cancer? We need the full story!

She was a gorgeous woman, IMO.

Such sad news. One of the most beautiful women ever. She was a lovely, sweet woman. Liked a couple of my tweets, so glad I was able to interact with her in some fashion before she left this world...

Agree that she aged amazingly well. I thought she looked better on Twin Peaks than she did on Mod Squad.

I hate to rain on your parade but she did some bad stuff too.

Ex-Controller Alan Hevesi and actress Peggy Lipton caught up in huge pension bribery scandal (NY Daily News DEC 03, 2009 article)

Why'd she never have much of a career after The Mod Squad?

She had her children right after Mod Squad with Quincy Jones (which her parents even gasped about) and took time to raise them, until she resurfaced with Twin Peaks when they were in high school.

R48 I read her book yrs ago & Iirc she said she really didn't care for fame, didnt even really like acting all that much. She found herself hiding in her home to avoid the press and fans.

When she married she decided to raise her kids and be a sahm.

I halfway read the link about Whatever she did. I did not understand.

I'm sorry for her death. I have a question and I hope my question isn't obnoxious, rude, or coming off as a troll, or being disrespectful. I am not trying to be any of those things. I just have a question.Wasn't there some rumor that she was involved in an orgy on board a boat with her being the only female on board with black male celebrities who had sex with her? I think Sammy Davis Jr. was there, Sidney Poitier, and others but I forgot who else? Or was that another actress?

Also, a poster mentioned colon cancer is related to anal sex. Yes, doctors have been doing studies and they have found out many, many times colon cancer is connected engaging in anal sex. They thought that was the case with Farrah Fawcett.

Bump for original and OFFICIAL DEAD TO ME thread

R52: I'm sure that has happened

So boring and pedestrian compared to the other Peggy Lipton thread