Jennifer O'Neill

Jennifer O'Neill is a Brazilian-born American actress, model and author who moved to the US as a baby and first gained notice as a teenage model, working for CoverGirl for three decades from 1963. She made her film debut in For Love of Ivy (1968) and took a lead in Howard Hawks's Western Rio Lobo (1970). Her breakthrough came with Summer of '42 (1971), as an airman's wife who becomes a teenage boy's crush, and she also appeared in Otto Preminger's Such Good Friends (1971). Mid-1970s Italian work included Luchino Visconti's The Innocent (1976) and Lucio Fulci's The Psychic (1977). She went on to star in David Cronenberg's Scanners (1981) and the television series Cover Up from 1984 to 1985. Later roles came in the independent movie Doonby (2013) and I'm Not Ashamed (2016), a biopic about Rachel Scott. She has also written several books, including the memoir Surviving Myself (1999).