Ann Turkel

Ann Turkel is an American actress who began as a model. Born in New York City and raised in Manhattan, she trained at the Neighborhood Playhouse under Sanford Meisner and at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy under Philip Burton by age 16. During the late 1960s she posed for American Vogue. After a small part in Paper Lion (1968), she took her first major role in 99 and 44/100% Dead (1974), then acted in Ravagers (1979), Golden Rendezvous (1977) and The Cassandra Crossing (1976). She later appeared in The Fear (1995), Deep Space (1988) and Humanoids from the Deep (1980), plus Portrait of a Hitman (1979) opposite Jack Palance. In a 1982 television pilot, she played the comic-strip character Modesty Blaise, and on television she also appeared as Kristen, an immortal modeling agent, in the Highlander: The Series episode Chivalry, from season four.