Person:Peggy Lipton (1)

Margaret Ann Lipton (August 30, 1946 – May 11, 2019) was an American actress, model, and singer.

Lipton was born Margaret Ann Lipton into an upper middle-class Jewish family in New York City on August 30, 1946, the daughter of artist Rita Benson (born Rita Hetty Rosenberg) and corporate lawyer Harold Lipton. Her paternal grandparents (surnamed Lipschitz) were Jewish immigrants from Russia, and her mother was born in Dublin, Ireland, to Jewish parents from Latvia. Lipton was raised on Long Island with her brothers: Robert, who became an actor, and Kenneth. She attended Lawrence Junior High School and the Professional Children's School. Sexually abused by an uncle, Lipton was a nervous and withdrawn child with a stutter so severe that she was sometimes unable to say her own name. In 1964, the family moved to Los Angeles, where Lipton became what she called a "Topanga Canyon hippie" who explored meditation and yoga.

Lipton was briefly linked with Paul McCartney. At the age of eighteen, she began using drugs in an attempt to alleviate her depression. After Lipton married musician and producer Quincy Jones in 1974, she took a hiatus from acting to concentrate on her family (with the exception of appearing in the made-for-TV movie "The Return of the Mod Squad" in 1979). The couple had two daughters, Kidada and Rashida, who both became actresses. Lipton and Jones separated in 1986, and divorced in 1989.

After being diagnosed in 2004, Lipton died of colon cancer in Los Angeles on May 11, 2019 at the age of 72.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Peggy Lipton, Star Of 'The Mod Squad' And 'Twin Peaks', Dies At 72, in NPR
   12 May 2019.

   Author: Gabriela Saldivia