Carol Lynley

American model, stage and TV actress, playing in some 50 films, ten Broadway plays and more than 200 TV performances. She became a professional actress on stage at age 12, starting with the Broadway show "Anniversary Waltz." Working as a dancer and model, she also posed for Playboy in 1965. Her films include, "The Stripper," "Under the Yum Yum Tree" and "The Poseidon Adventure" in 1972. Lynley went through a very brief marriage to Mike Selsman, a publicist, at age 18-19 and they had one daughter, Jill in 1962. She had an on-again off-again running affair with David Frost for over 18 years. Her outside interests were painting and traveling. She lived in Malibu and dated a California man steadily. By 2000, she said that he was amused at being called "her boyfriend" when they have been involved for 20 years. When not on the set, Lynley practised yoga and ballet to keep limber and enjoyed horseback riding and travel. Lynley died at age 77 of a heart attack on 3 September 2019 at her home in Pacific Palisades, California. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less