![]() ![]() Instant celebrity brought its own problems. “I enjoyed it, but I didn’t realise how violent it was,” she later said of the show. She described herself during that period as a “Topanga Canyon hippy”, a look that appealed to the producers of The Mod Squad. After the family moved to Los Angeles in 1964, Lipton got work as a cinema usherette before landing small acting roles in TV shows including Bewitched and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. It was her father who facilitated her earliest modelling jobs when she was a teenager, and her mother who persuaded her to take acting lessons she attended the Professional Children’s School in Manhattan. When I was young, I decided the best thing to do was not talk.” I had a wall around me and a lot of fantasy locked inside. Lipton was born in New York City, to Harold Lipton, a corporate lawyer, and Rita (nee Benson), an artist, and raised in Lawrence, Long Island. ![]() ![]() Photograph: Thomas/Spelling/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock In The Mod Squad with, left, Clarence Williams III and Michael Cole. ![]()
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